Bob Dole Quotes

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone.

It hurts to lose an election.

There’s nothing more humbling than losing a few elections.

There are times when public men must be able to accept ridicule and defeat, and wait for time either to prove them right, or to give them another chance. There are other times when it is probably wiser to compromise on half victories, so long as the trend is in the right direction. To do this effectively, however, and wisely is a very difficult thing.

I recognize that as the guy who lost the election, I'm not in a position to tell everybody else how to win, all right? They're not going to listen, and I don't have the credibility to do that anyway.

Every team boat will have its disagreements and arguments, but if it doesn't kill us or the boat, it will make us stronger.

Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together.

Often the biggest test is when the chips are down and you've got to stick together as a team.

You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you have got to hang though together

Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ... I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties.

How do you beat an individual who hasn't been beaten in 13 years? With the help of others.

This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire.

I am very grateful to my colleagues for their support. There is a big job before us: to unite our party and the country, to negotiate the best possible deal as we leave the EU, and to make Britain work for everyone.

Because if I see you defeated, then I think I will see Alban defeated, and if that happens, none of us can go on. To guard you is to guard the heart of this land of ours.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.

So be it. I’m happy to bring the country together.

The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power

I am never tired of winning, and as your president I will win for you, the American people. I'm with you!

The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

It's time for us to come together, time for us to come together around this good man [Donald Trump].

There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.