Robert McChesney Quotes

You can't always win - although we always try!

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

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

On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

I've learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better.

Sometimes you have to lose to win again.

Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

We don't win what we don't fight for.

My head’s under water but I’m breathing fine