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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Success, Failure, Enthusiasm

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson

Life, Pain, Character

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X

Time, Adversity, Defeat

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare

Men, Live, Country

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

Freedom, Stars, Few

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins

Life, Death, Live

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
Chanakya

Life, Die, Moment

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire

Age, After, Energy

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aurelius

Change, Nature, Nothing

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
Mitt Romney

History, Truth, Greatest

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Father, May, Him

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
Caleb Carr

True, Job, Human

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Michael J. Fox

Failure, Learning, Secret

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus Christ

Soul, Whole, Shall

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison

Time, Person, Him

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen Hawking

Work, Good, Forward

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.
Suze Orman

Life, Thinking, Path

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Often, Company, Fools

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Lost, Friends

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck

Power, Fear, Perhaps

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
James Madison

Home, Real, Liberty

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de Balzac

Beauty, Alone, Children

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
Luke Ford

Life, Anger, Acting

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

Home, Truth, Real

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon

Great, Friends, Forgive

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards

Good, Hope, Sacrifice

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon

Good, Mind, Rest

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
Anderson Cooper

Life, Anyone, Empathy

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson

Forgive, Process, Natural

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

Home, Truth, Real

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