When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Defeat is a state of mind. You are defeated only when you accept defeat, and assume the hopeless mindset of a defeated person.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.