Defeat Quotes
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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.
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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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They're inviting us to defeat them! We must oblige them!
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You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.
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Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
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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.
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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.
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A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
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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.
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It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.
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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.
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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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India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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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.
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Censorship defeats the right to self determination.
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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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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.
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We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
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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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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.
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It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
