Defeat Quotes
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Alexandre Dumas
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When you're young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you.
Anna Seghers
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You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.
Walt Disney
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We see and realise that the political situation in the United States is influenced by those who have lost the elections but refuse to accept their defeat, and who continue to use the anti-Russia card and various allegations most actively in the political infighting. This is why we are in no hurry, we are ready to wait, yet we strongly hope that Russian-US relations will become normal again sometime in the future.
Vladimir Putin
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The Musalmans of Hindustan (and) Musalmans of the whole world were looking to Pakistan with hope and longing eyes for guidance and help. Indian Muslims were also affected by whatever was happening in Pakistan or any other Muslim country. Indian Muslims were greatly pained at the defeat of Pakistan in 1971.
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Censorship defeats the right to self determination.
Billy Forbes
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They're inviting us to defeat them! We must oblige them!
Baron Munchausen
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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.
Alexander P. de Seversky
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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.
Benjamin Zander
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This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat.
Enver Hoxha
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India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.
William Dalrymple
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If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.
William Moulton Marston
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Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle it graciously.
Brad Tavares
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I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.
Etgar Keret
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Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.
Bartolomeo d'Alviano
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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.
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
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Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.
Lennox Lewis
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We are learning from our history and are looking it right in the eye and we went after this game. There's no nervousness on our part. We went after the New York Rangers in their own barn and almost pulled it off, i said to them all year defeat is not your undertaker and should be your teacher ... you’re going to see the Washington Capitals back here again.
Barry Trotz
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It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.
Napoleon Hill
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In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
Eric Liddell
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The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William Gibbs McAdoo