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• I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.

  Walter Russell

  Interesting, Secret, Experience

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• How can one call that a defeat? There is no such thing.

  Walter Russell

  Secret

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• Defeat serves to enlighten us.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Enlightening

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• Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Motivational, Bitter, Funny Team

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• Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sweet, Victory, Next

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.62

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• Defeat is always momentary.

  Peter Jackson

  Momentary

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• A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

  James Ellis

  Men, Brave, Victory

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• To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

  Neal Ascherson

  Giving, Victory, Defeated

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• Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

  Kobo Abe

  Lost

  Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.124, Vintage

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• It is defeat which educates us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Educate

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• It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Bones, Muscles

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Men, Victory

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• The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Victory, Negative

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• The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

  Austin O'Malley

  Interesting, Important, Facts

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• It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.

  Ben Robertson

  Years

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• We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

  George William Russell

  Spiritual, Hate, Fighting

  "The Living Torch, A.E". Book by Monk Gibbon, 1937.

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• Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?

  Rosa Parks

  Powerful, Victory, Revolution

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• As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

  Mohammed Omar

  Fire, America, United States

  "Mullah Omar Quoted as Saying U.S. Is Doomed", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Fear, Simple

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• There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Hangover, Player, Games

  "Eriksson goes against his basic instincts" by Kevin McCarra, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.

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• The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Loss, Identity, Form

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• We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Men, Generations, Keep The Faith

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• A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

  Robert E. Howard

  Kingdoms, Lost

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “Conan the conqueror”, p.89, Robert E. Howard

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• There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Victory, Sun

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

  Al Gore

  Failure, Loss, Victory And Defeat

  Al Gore's Presidential Concession speech, www.americanrhetoric.com. December 13, 2000.

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