Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

—Ralph W. Sockman

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

—Ralph W. Sockman

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

—Ralph W. Sockman

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

—Ralph W. Sockman

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

—Quintilian

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

—Oprah Winfrey

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

—Michel de Montaigne

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold