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«To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us»
«The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it - to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it.»
«Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.»
Author: Michael Jordan
(Basketball Player)
| About:
Intelligence,
Sports,
Talent,
Team work
| Keywords:
championships, games, teamwork, The Championship, wins
«The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.»
«Slow but steady wins the race»
«Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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«Politeness wins the confidence of princes»
«There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
hardly, more or less, nearly, one-sided, Other side, reaction, The other side, wins
«The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Victory
| Keywords:
battle, beforehand, calculations, fought, general, loses, temple, Temple in, The Battle, The General, wins
«Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.»
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