
“Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think”
“Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think”
“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”
Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 32, Shadow in the Throes of Death
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Context: First, about the mind. You tell me there is no fighting or hatred or desire in the Town. That this is a beautiful dream, and I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
“In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.”
Speech at Kettering, (3 July 1938), The Times (4 July 1938)
Prime Minister
“The world is a game of chess; the loser loses and the winner wins.”
As quoted in Jamāḷ al-Dīn al-Afghāni: A Muslim intellectual (1984) by Anwar Moazzam, p. 3
“There are winners and losers – and human will created the world we live in.”
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for