“In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.” HappenedDefeatTriumphRetrospect Author:Mignon McLaughlin
“I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.” LooksKindDoeDoneHelpingNextHappenedPersonalityVictoryDefeatPreparing Author:Rahul Dravid
“I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.” ThinkingCultureHappenedOvercomingDefeatFollowingDecadesCanadaConfederation Author:Stephen Harper
“The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.” PeopleWayChildrenCountryHomeDreamSidesLossWorryHappenedSadnessCarStrangeCrossesLonelyTwentiesWestDefeatThings HappenGoldenMysteriousHighwaysStrange ThingsMigrantsNew PlacesPerplexed Author:John Steinbeck