“I may have lost the election but I have not lost my reason to live.”
Doris Haddock (1910–2010) American political activist
Source: Girja Kumar The Book on Trial: Fundamentalism and Censorship in India http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n-KUICFfA00C&pg=PA460&dq=Devegowda&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bJe6U8othJWTBe2mgLAD&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Devegowda&f=false, Har-Anand Publications, 01-Jan-1997
“I may have lost the election but I have not lost my reason to live.”
Doris Haddock (1910–2010) American political activist
Peter Mandelson (1953) British Labour politician
Jason Beattie, Jon Hibbs, "Triumphant Mandelson hails new Labour victory", Scotsman, 8 June 2001, p. 5.
Acceptance speech after re-election as MP for Hartlepool in the 2001 General Election.
David Rowlands (1947–2014) British civil servant
Source: New Brexit Party AM calls Tommy Robinson 'courageous' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-48295617 BBC News (16 May 2019)
Roza Otunbayeva (1950) Soviet diplomat
"The Situation Is Not Easy" by Lally Weymouth in Newsweek (26 April 2010)
“forgive that i am unruly indulgent and loving freedom throughout my life”
Wong Ka Kui (1962–1993) Hong Kong singer-songwriter
Sky is the limit
Judy LaMarsh (1924–1980) Canadian politician, writer, broadcaster and barrister.
Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 10, Twenty-five to one, p. 278
Davy Crockett (1786–1836) American politician
Comments on his final election defeat (11 August 1835) Ch. 2; in Dr. Swan's Prescriptions for Job-Itis (2003) by Dennis Swanberg and Criswell Freeman, p. 45, part of this seems to have become paraphrased as "Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks." No earlier publication of this version has been located.
Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas (1836)
“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
The Mother (1878–1973) spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo
How she felt when she sat down at the feet of Sri Aurobindo, quoted in "Diary notes and Meeting with Sri Aurobindo" and also in The Mother (of Sri Aurobindo Ashram) Prema Nandakumar of National Book Trust, India, (1977) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=R1sqAAAAYAAJ, p. 23