Defeat Quotes - Page 22

• A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Pride, Victory

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Cracks, Matter

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• Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Fighting, Slavery

  Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

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• Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Teacher, Laughter, Opportunity

  William Hazlitt (2004). “On the Pleasure of Hating”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Kings, Revenge

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 638

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• The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Egypt, Iran

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When the heavens are with you, when the earth is with you, when the sea is with you, when the wind is with you. Who's going to defeat you after that? Nobody.

  Anjem Choudary

  Wind, Sea, Heaven

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de  faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Long, Victory, Enough

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• Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Blow, Israel, Faithful

  Lesslie Newbigin (1995). “The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission”, p.73, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross is indeed king - conqueror of death and sin, Lord and Savior of all. The resurrection is not the reversal of a defeat but the proclamation of a victory. The King reigns from the tree. The reign of God has indeed come upon us, and its sign is not a golden throne but a wooden cross.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Jesus, Kings, Tree

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• Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

  Aga Khan III

  Inspirational, Encouraging, God

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• Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Tragedy, Ends, Our Lives

  Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011). “I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity”, p.212, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.

  Yamaoka Tesshu

  Victory, Tire, Thirst

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• Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Inner Strength, Faces, Negative

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• The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

  Franz Stampfl

  Athlete, Conquer, Cross Country Running

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• If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

  RZA

  Self, Definitions, Ifs

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.89, Penguin

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• A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fate, People, Bishops

  "Lord Beaconsfield". Book by James Anthony Froude, 1890.

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• The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Imagination, Doubt

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.77

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• Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people--what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest level of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Dream, Ocean, People

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• Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

  Richard Wagner

  War, Men, Victory And Defeat

  Richard Wagner (1966). “Prose works”

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• I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’

  Brian Kiley

  Book, Self, Purpose

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• People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

  John Bolton

  Victory And Defeat, People, Victory

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• For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Memories, Heart, Thoughtful

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Years, Long

  "Why Are We in Kosovo?" by Susan Sontag, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 1999.

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• Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.

  Wendell Phillips

  Soldier, Victory, Liberty

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

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