When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome
Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose.
View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
If I win, I win. And if I lose, I spare myself untold agony.
Running for party leadership against Brian Mulroney:
There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.
As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.
At the end of the day, if we don't win that game, we're going home, anyway, so what does it matter. I just wanted to be available, and it ended up to the point where I could help out tonight.
Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.