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• Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Business, War, Fighting

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• Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

  Arthur Ashe

  Failure, Inward, Losing

  Arthur Ashe (1995). “Arthur Ashe on Tennis: Strokes, Strategy, Traditions, Players, Psychology, and Wisdom”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

  Robert E. Lee

  Fall, Energy, Disaster

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.545, Madison & Adams

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• I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

  Mojo Nixon

  Religious, Hate, Army

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• Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Simple, Soldier, Enemy

  "'Knives are out': Hawaii Dem faces backlash for taking on Obama over 'Islamist' extremism". Interview with Malia Zimmerman, www.foxnews.com. February 28, 2015.

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• Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

  Robert South

  Motivation, Failure, Discouragement

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  When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, God, Disappointment

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Brida: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

  Josephus Daniels

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Positive, Sports

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3045, Library of Alexandria

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• Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Knowing, Finals, Reason

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• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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• Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dust, Soul, Stronger

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.924, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

  Oskar Schindler

  Power, Schindler's List

  "Schindler's List". Book by Thomas Keneally, Ch. 15., October 18, 1982.

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• I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

  Jay-Z

  Dope, Lesson Learned, Lessons

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• The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

  Sun Tzu

  Lying, Art Of War, Opportunity

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

  Christy Mathewson

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Sunset, Winning

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.108, RosettaBooks

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• So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Badass, Military

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Opportunity

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.12, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Christian, White, House

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• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Sacrifice, Self

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• Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

  Michael Medved

  Pain, Winning, California

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• The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

  Roy Acuff

  Tennessee, Done, Democrat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.

  Che Guevara

  Sacrifice, Effort, Battle

  Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2000). “Che Guevara Speaks”, Pathfinder Press

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