Defeat Quotes - Page 3

• Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Military

  Ernest Hemingway, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

  Ashley Montagu

  Success, Work, Differences

  Ashley Montagu (1958). “The Cultured Man”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 16, 2010

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• The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Victory And Defeat, Problem

  Winston Churchill, Colin Coote, Ryōichi Amano (1965). “チャ-チル名言集”

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• Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Failure, Men, Presidential

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

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• Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Inspirational, Victory And Defeat, Be Careful

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• The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Healing, Clouds

  "Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

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• As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

  Galeazzo Ciano

  Father, Victory, Losing

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• There is no failure except in no longer trying.

  Chris Bradford

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

  Robert Torricelli

  Adversity, Victory And Defeat, Long

  "Starr: Independent Counsel Act should not be renewed". www.cnn.com. April 14, 1999.

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• When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

  Rosalind Russell

  Courage, Affliction, Happens

  Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”

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• Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

  William Arthur Ward

  Failure, Delay, Detours

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Victory, Would Be, Ease

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.158, Baen Books

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• Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

  John Boyd Orr

  Revenge, War, Lust

  "Nobel Lectures in Peace" by Frederick W. Haberman, World Scientific, (p. 415), 1999.

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• Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

  John Boyd Orr

  Rivals, Empires, Fallen

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• To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

  George Orwell

  War, Civilization, Cities

  1945 In the Observer, 8 Apr.

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• Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

  George Lois

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Creativity

  "'Damn Good Advice' From One Of The Real 'Mad Men'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 19, 2012.

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• We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.

  Doc Hastings

  Justice, Allies, World

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• Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Fighting, Army

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

  Mary Renault

  Blessing, Boredom, Missing

  Mary Renault (2014). “North Face: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

  Michael Mullen

  Safe Haven, Als, Return

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• Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

  Pat Buchanan

  Political, Victory, Lessons

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• In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Victory, Triumph

  'The Poets' (1876)

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• We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

  George Soros

  Powerful, Organization, Quagmire

  "Why I Have Campaigned Across America to Put John Kerry in the White House". Speech at the National Press Club, www.independent.co.uk. November 02, 2004.

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