Defeats Quotes
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As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
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In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
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I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
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I am not concerned about two successive defeats, ... I am just sad for the players that they haven't got their due rewards.
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We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
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But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.
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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats.
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One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.
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Strategically, it is that same paradoxical logic that transforms victories into defeats if they merely persist long enough to pass their culminating point, whether by overextension or by bringing others into the fray, or both. And there is much more of the same, at every level of struggle, from the clash of weapons to the clash of empires, and in peace as well as in war. Always and everywhere it is the paradoxical logic of strategy that determines outcomes, whether the protagonists know of its existence or not.
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Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories.
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.
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If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken by temporary defeats, then you have reached the goal achieved by the most fortunate. Not everyone reaches this mental state; in fact, many people do not even believe it is possible. Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the inner-harmony we desire. This type of awareness is not an accident, it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.
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History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
