Defeat Quotes
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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.
Woodrow Wilson
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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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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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They're inviting us to defeat them! We must oblige them!
Baron Munchausen
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Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.
Norman Vincent Peale
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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.
Tony Blair
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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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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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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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A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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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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The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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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We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
Moshe Sharett
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Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.
Walter de La Mare
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It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.
Napoleon Hill
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Censorship defeats the right to self determination.
Billy Forbes
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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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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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Education is the key. If you are educated, nothing can defeat you.
Caster Semenya