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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how read more
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some read more
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong
the spoils of the enemy.
They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong
the spoils of the enemy.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Hail! Thou as victor crowned.
[Ger., Heil dir im Siegerkranz.]
Hail! Thou as victor crowned.
[Ger., Heil dir im Siegerkranz.]
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.