How to be a Gracious Loser
Know what’s better than winning? Absolutely nothing! Unfortunately, our best isn’t always good enough.
Be a gracious loser. YOU WIN some, you lose some – sounds like a trite aphorism but it is a harsh fact of life!
Accept losing without feelings of bitterness or low self-esteem.
Being gracious in defeat isn’t a Democrat virtue.
He didn’t run a very effective campaign, but give John McCain credit for a classy close Tuesday night.
The designated loser made a gracious concession speech, its rhetoric so fine that one might be charmed into forgetting the cost to America.
“Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant.”
Although McCain gave a gracious concession speech, the old fighter pilot understood that his argument was a loser.
Alright, I’m a good loser. (Some would say I have had a lot of practice.) My father raised me to be magnanimous in victory and gracious in defeat. …
It was the speech of a man who was not only gracious, but who thought of himself as an American above all.
Let’s be gracious. Let’s be conciliatory, and let’s indeed govern from the center,-Ann Marie in Brooklyn (search phrase “gracious loser”)