If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
Walter ReutherRead
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Interpretation
Life will always present challenges, but how we respond to them is up to us.
This quote emphasizes the inevitability of challenges and obstacles we face throughout our lives. It reminds us that while we cannot control the difficulties that come our way, we have the power to choose our response, which can lead to personal growth and resilience. Instead of succumbing to defeat, we can adopt a mindset that views challenges as opportunities for learning and improvement.
In practice
This quote can inspire students facing tough exams to persevere and stay motivated.
If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.
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