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On resisting despair, publicly and privately.

One quote sets a clear standard for democratic life: no arrogance in victory, and no despondency in defeat, treating both extremes as equally worth avoiding. Another extends the idea to an entire nation, warning that widespread despondency has settled over a poor population even though the country itself isn't poor — a matter of collective Character as much as economics.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Democracy
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Nov 07, 2020

Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.

Quotes by Yogi Adityanath

Confidence
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Nov 07, 2020

If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.

Quotes by Samuel Adams

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Quotes by John Agyekum Kufuor

Cloudy
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Nov 07, 2020

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.

Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson

A more historical warning goes further still, arguing that if the public gives in to despond, confidence collapses and even liberty itself is at risk. A final, more personal quote traces a quieter kind of despondency back to jealousy, describing it as a faint Blight that grows out of damp self-focus rather than any real, forceful passion.

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