Defeat Quotes - Page 15

• In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people.

  John Ashcroft

  War, Moving, Color

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• We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Real, War, Views

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• We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

  Denis Kearney

  Hype, Gold, Needs

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• To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Simple, Men, Choices

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• The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After there is peace and order throughout the country, they will still engage in sabotage and create disturbances in various ways and will try every day and every minute to stage a comeback. This is inevitable, beyond all doubt, and under no circumstances must we relax our vigilance.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Lying, Struggle

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.

  Melita Norwood

  People, Ordinary, Cost

  Quoted in the New York Times, 13 September 1999. Treason for health care! Why did the USSR's spies never seem to know anything true about the USSR?

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• He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Accomplish Nothing, Luxury, Excess

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

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• There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Differences, Wit

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• A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Motivation, Games

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• We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Strong Women, Rose

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

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• I always say that in order to appreciate warm weather, you must experience cold. I wouldn't change one thing - all the embarrassing moments, the defeats, all of everything - through all of this, I have learned me.

  Floyd Patterson

  Sports, Order, Weather

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• Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Victory, Half

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• A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained within victory. That's the way it is in the best of games. What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Struggle, Games

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• So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Night

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• There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

  Dan Gable

  Leadership, Sports, Hate

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• Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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• You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

  Nolan Ryan

  Leadership, Sports, Hard Work

  Nolan Ryan, Joe Torre, Joel H. Cohen (1977). “Pitching & hitting”, Prentice Hall

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• The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, “Thou art my refuge, because Thou art my home”. 

  George MacDonald

  Art, Home, Men

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• A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Winning, Beloved Community, Understanding

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.100, Beacon Press

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• The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Responsibility, Fighting, Essence

  "Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara". Book by Andrew Sinclair, 2006.

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• How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a concentration upon certain beauties, though forever lost and unretrievable, can lift the wounded past roundedness and the dying past dying, protecting them with an image, still and bright, that will ride with them on their long ride, never to fade and never to retreat.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Past, Light

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• Jesus on the cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it; he defeats it with his resurrection. This is the good that Jesus does for us on the throne of the cross. Christ's cross, embraced with love, never leads to sadness, but to joy, to the joy of having been saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Sadness, Evil

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• So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I
  have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.

  Herbert Hoover

  Years, Feelings, Mind

  "Hoover Off the Record". Book by Theodore Joslin, 1934.

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• A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except
  from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Persistence, Effort, Trying

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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