Defeat Quotes
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One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
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Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.
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We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go!
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The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
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If a man feared defeat, he would never give battle... Every victory is inevitably succeeded by defeat. It is the nature of our lives. A man might fight a thousand battles and emerge triumphant from every one; still, he will suffer defeat in the end, for we die and we are forgotten. If we cannot face defeat, we must live always, throughout our lives, in fear. For it awaits us all.
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During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them on earth. This is somewhat comparable to the pull of the flesh when our alarm goes off early in the morning. Unless we put "mind over mattress" and carry out the resolves made the night before, we will experience our first defeat that day. Not sufficient to finish. Mission aborted.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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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.
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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
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Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.
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When you're young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you.
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Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.
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To defeat the enemy, we must know him first
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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.
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The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.
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If Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand something, it’s not defeat. It’s not even something he has to accept. It’s merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.
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To overextend yourself is to invite defeat.
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There are people who try to judge. I'm cool with that. I don't care what nobody say - the only thing that can defeat hate is love.
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Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.
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Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.
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Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.
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Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arabic-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method. So they allowed it to begin.
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“The experience of defeat, or more particularly the manner in which a leader reacts to it, is an essential part of what makes a winner.”
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President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.
