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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. ↗

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#ball #defeats #down #fight #give

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#canal #feats #his #learns #literary

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ↗

— Doug Larson

#enough #feats #greatest #impossible #know

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#defeats #disasters #energies #even #expect

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. ↗

— Og Mandino

#because #careers #comes #countless #defeats

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#art #artist #becoming #defeats #end

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#more #some #than #triumphant #victories

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. ↗

— Plato

#best #defeat #defeats #each #first

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#bottom #defeats #fellows #top #victories