Defeat Quotes
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President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.
Bill Clinton
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Alexandre Dumas
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The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.
William Shawcross
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.
Napoleon Hill
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We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.
Norman Vincent Peale
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It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.
Edgar Snow
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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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The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.
Peter Pace
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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
Plato
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Censorship defeats the right to self determination.
Billy Forbes
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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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It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
Ben Robertson
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It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
Max Lerner
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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it!
Francis Marion Crawford
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Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.
Jose Rizal
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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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Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.
Carrie Vaughn
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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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When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.
Viswanathan Anand
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The greatest victory is defeat.
Henrik Ibsen
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I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.
Michel Gondry