Zhang Chao (1650–1707) writer
As quoted in Lin Yutang's With Love and Irony (1945), 'In Defence of Gold Diggers', p. 221
Zhang Chao (1650–1707) writer
As quoted in Lin Yutang's With Love and Irony (1945), 'In Defence of Gold Diggers', p. 221
Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto
Source: Naruto, Vol. 61: Uchiha Brothers United Front
“The defeated are those who never fail.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), The Defeated Ones
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Memorial Day speech (1963)
Context: The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law. Law has not failed — and is not failing. We as a nation have failed ourselves by not trusting the law and by not using the law to gain sooner the ends of justice which law alone serves. If the white over-estimates what he has done for the Negro without the law, the Negro may under-estimate what he is doing and can do for himself with the law.
“Those who fail I find successful,”
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet
Lunatic. 6
पागल (The Lunatic)
Context: I see the blind man as the people's guide, the ascetic in his cave a deserter; those who act in the theater of lies I see as dark buffoons. Those who fail I find successful, and progress only backsliding. am I squint-eyed, Or just crazy? Friend, I'm crazy. Look at the withered tongues of shameless leaders, The dance of the whores At breaking the backbone on the people's rights. When the sparrow-headed newsprint spreads its black lies In a web of falsehood
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1961, UN speech
Context: Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or example. But inevitably they fail, either because men are not afraid to die for a life worth living, or because the terrorists themselves came to realize that free men cannot be frightened by threats, and that aggression would meet its own response. And it is in the light of that history that every nation today should know, be he friend or foe, that the United States has both the will and the weapons to join free men in standing up to their responsibilities.