American
President and
Politician
(January 9,
1913 -
April 22,
1994)
"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."
"A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits."
"A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant."
"Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose."
"You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character."
