Defeated Quotes
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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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
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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
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
C. L. R. James
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
Fidel Castro
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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
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Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
Norman Vincent Peale
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Barack Obama
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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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No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
Walker Percy
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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
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
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The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.
William L. Marcy
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
William Lloyd Garrison
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Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.
Nicki Minaj
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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
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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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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
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Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.
William Kristol
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It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
Baden Powell
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No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Napoleon Hill
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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