Quotes: Theodore Roosevelt

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." 

–– Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), American politician, conservationist, naturalist, writer, and American President (1901-9). 

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.

Quotes: Bill Elliot-Bristol

"Sometimes you win by being the best of what's left." 

–– Bill Elliot-Bristol (b. 1955), American stock car racing driver 

via: Sketchbook 31, 2019, p. 64. 

Quotes: Nelson Mandela

"I never lose. I either win or learn." 

–– Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, South Africa's first Black president (1994-1999), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1993