Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.
Whoever is present in your spring would more than likely have respected your winter.
Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.
Neither gold nor diamonds mine themselves.
Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it.
Before you can win, you must begin.
Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted ou...
Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.