Defeat Quotes

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  Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Death, Halloween, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

  Robert Browning

  God, Not Giving Up, Fighting

  'Paracelsus' (1835) pt. 5, l. 363

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• Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Laughter, Entrepreneur

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

  Og Mandino

  Pain, Self, Laughing

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• There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

  Saul Bellow

  Book, Writing, Sunset

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.167, Penguin

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• They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Keys, History, Taught

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• In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Victory And Defeat

  "Marlborough; his life and times".

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• There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Violence, Non Violence

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• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

  Queen Victoria

  Leadership, Inspirational Life, Winning

  To A. J. Balfour, in 'Black Week', December 1899

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• I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

  Robert Wyatt

  Life, Suicide, Suicidal

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• Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.179, Tuttle Publishing

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• It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

  Floyd Patterson

  Sports, Men, Mma

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• I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

  Russell Crowe

  Destined

  "Crowe's dual role spells double trouble" by James Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Failure, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.

  Birch Bayh

  Senior, Wings, Looks

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• Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

  William Moulton Marston

  Taken, Personality, Important

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• No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Men, Bitterness

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• Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Causes, Prepared, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

  William Morris

  Fighting, Men, Names

  A Dream of John Ball ch. 4 (1888)

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• Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

  Henry Rollins

  Doe, Lasts, Persons

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• He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

  John Steinbeck

  Ideas, Laughing, Victory

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.173, Penguin

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• If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

  Zebulon Pike

  Congratulations, Men, Names

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1972). “Zebulon Pike's Arkansaw Journal: In Search of the Southern Louisiana Purchase Boundary Line (interpreted by His Newly Recovered Maps).”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Boss, United States

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Respect, Courage, Regret

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