"Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard."
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"Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life."
"It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave."
"Going to the gym was never about 'working out' like it is for most people. To me, It was a matter of life or death. It was either me or the weights-and I was going to win. I've always had that competitive streak, whether it was in the gym, on the stage, or In anything else I did."
"The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win."
"Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn."
"You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers."
"Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?"
"A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win."
"There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win."
"Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win."
"Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win."
"A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest."
"I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one."
"There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner."
"The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me."
"It is a cup final and the one who wins it goes through"
"He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew."
"She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves."
"There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands."