“Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.”
Source: The Way of Kings
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Brandon Sanderson 313
American fantasy writer 1975Related quotes

“I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.”
Diary (14 March 1881)
1880s

“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
On art versus life in “Berkeley world premiere for Naomi Iizuka play” https://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Berkeley-world-premiere-for-Naomi-Iizuka-play-3271229.php in SF Gate (2010 Mar 4)

“Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
"The Last Ride Together", line 67 (1859).

The art of positive thinking. http://www.storypick.com/quotes-by-tendulkar/
as quoted in A House Divided: American Art Since 1955, Anne M. G. Wagner, Univ. of California Press 2012, p. 205 - note 8
1980 - 2000