Defeat Quotes - Page 18

• Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.

  Rosika Schwimmer

  War, Men, Rights

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• I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

  Edward Teller

  Enormous, Ifs

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• What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

  John Henry Jowett

  Trying, Elements, Resolution

  John Henry Jowett (1916). “The Whole Armour of God”

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• Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.

  William Styron

  Writing, Past, Judging

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.417, Random House

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• To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Enemy, Battle

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• The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

  B. J. Thomas

  Sadness, Long, Steps

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• Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

  Willard Gaylin

  Jealousy, Struggle, Envy

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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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

  Powerful, Errors, America

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• That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Fall, Problem, Surrender

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• As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

  Burt Lancaster

  Long, Curiosity, Age

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• Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.

  Robert Boswell

  Men, Every Man

  Robert Boswell (1995). “Living to be a hundred: stories”, Harper Perennial

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• The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Air, Triumph, Arms

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• Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Victory, Despair, Found

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• Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

  Samora Machel

  Discipline, Relaxation, Laziness

  Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”

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• The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

  Charles Handy

  Strong, Business, Men

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, p.90, Harvard Business Press

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• The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Party, Roots

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• Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

  Denis McDonough

  America, Als, Violence

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• Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Sports, Football, Winning

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• All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Country, Terrorism

  "CNN Late edition with Wolf Blitzer". www.cnn.com. March 19, 2006.

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• We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

  Nick Clooney

  Evil, Becoming

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• Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

  Stafford Cripps

  Axes, Evil, Design

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• As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

  Nonito Donaire

  Team, Thinking, Class

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• Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

  Sam Donaldson

  Home, Thinking, Victory And Defeat

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• It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspirational, Deceit, Sides

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