Defeat Quotes - Page 17

• Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us

  Zoran

  Compassion, Enemy, Mercy

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• The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Defeated, Crosses

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• A word too much always defeats its purpose.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Purpose, Too Much

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

  Winston Churchill

  Loss, Feelings, Finals

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Strength, Strong, Men

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• Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

  Walter Lippmann

  Past, Men, Records

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.163, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Pride, People

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.133

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• Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

  Erich Fromm

  Love Life, Life And Death, Life Is

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• Defeat may be victory in disguise.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Victory, May, Disguise

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Faith, Victory, Looks

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne (1910*). “"Virginibus puerisque" and other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

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• It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

  Max Lerner

  Success, Triumph, Easy

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• We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

  Robert Breault

  Purpose, Action, Organized

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• My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.

  Brian Tee

  Art, Uncles, Military

  "‘Mortal Kombat Legacy 2’ actor Brian Tee talks darker take on Liu Kang". Hero Complex interview, herocomplex.latimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

  Timothy Keller

  Blood, Sweat, Joy

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.14, Penguin

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• I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  Taya Kyle

  Evil, Challenges, Cain And Abel

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• Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated by the down-drag of the flesh, defeated by loss, by pain, by suffering, by worry. Instead of saying with confidence, ?This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith?, they have to say in honesty, ?This is the defeat that has been caused by the world, even our self-centeredness.? That is the opposite of faith. Unbelief is not the opposite of faith; self-centeredness is ? being centered in self rather than in God.

  Sam Shoemaker

  Faith, Christian, Honesty

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• For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Kings, Teaching, Hard Work

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

  Indira Gandhi

  Victory, Lasts, Resources

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• Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

  Bruce Catton

  Spirit, Dignity, Moments

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• The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.

  Primo Levi

  Degradation, Conclusion

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Ideas, Victory, May

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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• The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

  Joseph Epstein

  Class, Style, May

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• Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

  Clarence Day

  Elephants, Suffering, Quality

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.28, 1st World Publishing

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• Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

  Wendell Phillips

  Destiny, Men, Lasts

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.274

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• The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Country, War, Years

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

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