Defeated Quotes
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
Cressida Cowell
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90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
Paul J. Meyer -
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
C. L. R. James -
If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen -
By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
Jack Keane -
The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
Fidel Castro -
If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
Norman Vincent Peale -
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Barack Obama -
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
Henry Ward Beecher -
There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.
Oswald Chambers -
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
William Lloyd Garrison -
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
Walker Percy -
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
Ernest Hemingway -
Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.
Wilhelm II -
Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.
Nicki Minaj -
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
Baden Powell -
When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant.
Lao Tzu
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To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.
Savitri Devi -
The extraordinary fact is that the first idea I had which motivated me, that worked, is conjecture, a mathematical idea which may or may not be true. And that idea is still unproven. It is the foundation, what started me and what everybody failed to **** prove has so far defeated the greatest efforts by experts to be proven.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Napoleon Hill -
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.
Katharine Hepburn