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Success is not defined by obstacles overcome, but by perseverance in the face of defeat.
Author:
Samantha Johnson
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Success is not defined by the number of victories, but by the strength exhibited in defeat.
Author:
Samantha Wilkins
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Success is not defined by the number of victories, but by the resilience in facing defeat.
Author:
Sophia Daniels
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Success is not determined by the number of victories, but by the depth of resilience in defeat.
Author:
Sophia Torres
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Author:
Mao Zedong
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I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Author:
George Woodberry
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There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
Author:
Bern Williams
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The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.
Author:
Anna Wickham
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
Author:
Anthony Wayne
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What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.
Author:
Henry Waxman
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The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.
Author:
John Warner
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I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.
Author:
Jim Walsh
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Author:
Queen Victoria
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As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.
Author:
John Thorn
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I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
Author:
Edward Teller
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Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
Author:
Kim sung
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Author:
Robert South
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
Author:
Bishop South
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We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
Author:
George Soros
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Author:
Sam Snead
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
Author:
Kate Smith
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
Author:
Mark Skousen
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
Author:
Wallis Simpson
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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
Author:
Oskar Schindler
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Author:
Sallust
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Author:
Sallust
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The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
Author:
Jeffrey Sachs
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I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
Author:
Darrell Royal
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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
Author:
Pat Riley
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Author:
Pat Riley
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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
Author:
Mary Renault
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Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.
Author:
Harry Reid
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As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Author:
Quintilian
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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
Author:
Colin Powell
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And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!
Author:
Harry Pollitt
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Author:
Plato
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Author:
Zebulon Pike
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Author:
Wendell Phillips
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Author:
Norman Peale
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War is a defeat for humanity.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.
Author:
Peter Pace
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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
Author:
John Orr
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Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
Author:
John Orr
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As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
Author:
Mohammed Omar
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God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels. In terms of worldly affairs, America is very strong. Even if it were twice as strong or twice that, it could not be strong enough to defeat us. We are confident that no one can harm us if God is with us.
Author:
Mohammed Omar
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The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
Author:
Ivor Novello
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I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.
Author:
Melita Norwood
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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.
Author:
Ruud Nistelrooy
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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Author:
Beverley Nichols
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Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
Author:
Horatio Nelson
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The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
Author:
Bill Nelson
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We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.
Author:
Timothy Murphy
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The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.
Author:
Michael Mullen
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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
Author:
William Morris
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Author:
Ashley Montague
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The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Author:
Ashley Montagu
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To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery.
Author:
Slobodan Milosevic
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The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
Author:
Slobodan Milosevic
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With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
Author:
Kelly Miller
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Author:
Henry Miller
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Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Author:
Paul Meyer
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Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.
Author:
Michael Medved
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
Author:
William McKinley
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And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?
Author:
John McCain
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You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
Author:
Christy Mathewson
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Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.
Author:
William Marston
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In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.
Author:
Edward Marsh
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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Author:
Edwin Markham
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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
Author:
Orison Marden
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Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world.
Author:
Kenny Marchant
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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
Author:
Maxwell Maltz
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Author:
Malcolm Malcolm X
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Author:
Douglas MacArthur
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My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
Author:
James Longstreet
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.
Author:
Joshua Logan
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May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
Author:
Henry Lodge, Jr.
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The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
Author:
Karl Liebknecht
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
Author:
G. Liddy
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Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
Author:
G. Liddy
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Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.
Author:
Stephen Lewis
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I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Author:
Tom Landry
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Author:
Ann Landers
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A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Author:
Louis L'Amour
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If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
Author:
Nguyen Ky
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We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.
Author:
Jurgen Klinsmann
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I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
Author:
Allen Klein
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I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.
Author:
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.
Author:
Jahangir Khan
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
Author:
John Keynes
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Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
Author:
John Kennedy
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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Author:
John Kennedy
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We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
Author:
Denis Kearney
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
Author:
Abdul Kalam
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You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
Author:
Roger Kahn
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Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
Author:
Tahar Jelloun
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War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
Author:
Bruce Jackson
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
Author:
Michael Ignatieff
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I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Author:
Arianna Huffington
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Author:
Lou Holtz
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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
Author:
Gordon Hinckley
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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Author:
Napoleon Hill
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Author:
Napolean Hill
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Author:
Napolean Hill
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The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
Author:
Joe Henderson
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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Man is not made for defeat.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
Author:
Carolyn Heilbrun
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We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.
Author:
Doc Hastings
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Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.
Author:
Doc Hastings
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Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
Author:
Albert Hart
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I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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Mobilize people to vote and to re-elect Clinton as the only way to defeat.
Author:
Gus Hall
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The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
Author:
Franz Halder
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We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.
Author:
Raul Grijalva
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This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.
Author:
Herman Gorter
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No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Author:
Al Gore
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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
Author:
Martha Gellhorn
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
Author:
Martha Gellhorn
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The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.
Author:
Frank Gaffney
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A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
Author:
Gerald Ford
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Author:
Malcolm Forbes
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The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
Author:
John Flynn
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Author:
F. Fitzgerald
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There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.
Author:
Rio Ferdinand
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The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
Author:
Joseph Epstein
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
Author:
George Eliot
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We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.
Author:
Thelma Drake
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Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
Author:
Jared Diamond
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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Author:
Josephus Daniels
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Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be - and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can't cut and run.
Author:
Al D'Amato
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Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
Author:
Harvey Cushing
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I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.
Author:
Russell Crowe
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Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.
Author:
Stafford Cripps
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India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.
Author:
Stafford Cripps
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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Author:
Francis Crawford
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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Author:
Robert Collier
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South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.
Author:
William Colby
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I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.
Author:
Roy Cohn
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We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.
Author:
Nick Clooney
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We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.
Author:
Nick Clooney
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Author:
Galeazzo Ciano
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
Author:
Lydia Child
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There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Author:
Cesar Chavez
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We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.
Author:
Paul Cellucci
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For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
Author:
Jonathan Carroll
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Author:
Andrew Carnegie
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
Author:
George Carlin
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Author:
Orson Card
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One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
Author:
William Buckley, Jr.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
Author:
Pat Buchanan
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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
Author:
Steven Brust
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You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
Author:
Paul Brown
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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Author:
Bill Bradley
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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Author:
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Author:
Tony Blair
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Author:
Simone Beauvoir
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I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.
Author:
Birch Bayh
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Author:
Russell Baker
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Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.
Author:
Shaukat Aziz
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But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.
Author:
David Axelrod
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.
Author:
Alan Alda
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
Author:
Damon Albarn
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The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.
Author:
Roy Acuff
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Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
Author:
John Abizaid
