
“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
Quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Jolt: Raphael Warnock exults, Jon Ossoff claims victory, and Republicans wonder what happened, (6 January 2021)
“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
Squire, Larry R. (ed). (2004). William Maxwell (Max) Cowan http://www.sfn.org/~/media/SfN/Documents/Autobiographies/c5.ashx. The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography. Volume 4. Elsevier. pp. 144-209. ISBN 0-12-660246-8.
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
Variant: The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.
“We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.”
Christian Science Monitor (5 March 1979)
1977 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEWsxCrMM1U in Pitkin County Prison, Colorado
“We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?”
Source: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories
“We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.”
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 32 : 'Colonel Stonehill'