Defeat Quotes - Page 31

• Woe to the conquered.

  Livy

  Woe

  Livy (2006). “The History of Rome”, p.394, Hackett Publishing

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• Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arabic-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method. So they allowed it to begin.

  Edward Thomas

  Country, Character, Fighting

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• Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would "confess" Christ. The "offense" of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world.

  Lord Kelvin

  Jesus, Men, Rejection

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• One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Building Up, Political

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• What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections. I trust the measure will turn out well. It is a great relief to me. Defeat in this way, after a full and public hearing before this [Electoral] Commission, is not mortifying in any degree, and success will be in all respects more satisfactory.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Hearing, Degrees, Relief

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• Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Internet, Free Speech, Threat

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• Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

  Henry Wriston

  Courage, Men, Gestures

  Henry Merritt Wriston (1943). “Challenge to freedom”

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• Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay.

  Mark Oliver

  Hands, Looks, Pebbles

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• There's music in everything, even defeat

  Charles Bukowski

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.24, Canongate Books

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• I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'

  Jack Canfield

  Disappointment, Self, People

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• It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

  Margaret Sanger

  Vision, Quests, Obstacles

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• There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sacrifice, Men, Two

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• My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when "Wild Wild West" opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie - to open at $52 million - and to know the movie wasn't good.

  Will Smith

  Hurt, Pain, Emotional

  "'Don't Mention The Oscars'". Interview with David Ansen, www.newsweek.com. February 3, 2002.

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• In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Success, Keys, Victory

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• Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the fights must be done in the dimension of existence! Your body is your road to everywhere; if you destroy it, you lose all the roads! Stay firm and fight alive; no cause is more valuable than a man's life! Keep your body out of the fire! Don't ever praise the self-immolations; condemn them! Suicide is a defeat! Power is to fight, to fight peacefully, and not to die in agony!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Suicide, Freedom

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• Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hate, Real, Anger

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• Will power defeats all powers

  Aftab Alam

  Power, Will Power

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• Greatest victory which we desire, is to defeat truth and Lo! Truth is undefeated

  Aftab Alam

  Truth, Greatest Victory, Desire

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• I don't know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai, for his strength, for his wisdom and for his courage to lead this country first in the defeat of the Taliban and now in rebuilding a democratic and unified Afghanistan. And I can tell you I am with foreign ministers and with heads of state all over the world. I sit in the councils of NATO. I sit with the EU. I sit with people all over the world and there is great admiration for your president and also for what the Afghan people are doing here.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, People, Community

  Remarks With Afghan President Hamid Karzai After Their Meeting, 2001-2009.state.gov. June 28, 2006.

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• I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Thinking, Games

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• But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

  Upton Sinclair

  Giving Up, Battle, Devil

  Upton Sinclair (2014). “The Profits of Religion”, p.262, Trajectory Inc

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• Be loved. Be known. Love people and know people. Be so brave as to raise a hand for help when you need it. Make friends and make sure they know they matter. Be loyal to them and fight for them. Remind them what’s true and invite them to do the same when you forget. If you do some losing or you walk with someone else in their defeat, live with dignity and grace. It is the middle finger to the darkness.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Fighting, Hands, People

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.62, Penguin

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• I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.

  Jose Mourinho

  Victory, Trying, Emotion

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• We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorists as long as we have a president [Barack Obama] unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorists'.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Long, President

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• There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.

  Richard Rohr

  Fall, Games, Sides

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