I hope you are well and that these quotes will help you in your search for more prosperity and happiness. It is my pleasure each week to bring some of that to you and those you keep close.

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1. "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
--Bertie C. Forbes

2. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
--Marilyn vos Savant

3. "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
--Muhammad Ali

4. "I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth."
--Pearl S. Buck

5. "It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
--Robert F. Kennedy

6. "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
--Mary Pickford

7. "Never let defeat have the last word."
--Tibetan Proverb