Character Quote by Charles Horton Cooley

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained,…

— Confucius

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which…

— George Orwell

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

— Miguel de Cervantes

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers…

— Samuel Johnson

He who loses wealth loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses his courage loses all.

— Miguel De Cervantes

He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never…

— Frederic Tudor

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his…

— Cressida Cowell

“A person's character isn't determined by how he or she enjoys victory, but rather how he or she endures defeat”

— Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey

Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

— Gautama Buddha

In order for a situation to come to an end, one must let it. Even in the midst of defeat one can pull out…

— Anonymous

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

— Paulo Coelho

“It is because these characters depend to such a high degree on their own sense of integrity that for them, victory has nothing to…

— Azar Nafisi