Defeat Quotes - Page 32

• Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

  Wendell Berry

  Military, Finals, Thorough

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.16, Counterpoint

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• I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

  Arnold Palmer

  Guy, Looks, Taught

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Believe, Accepting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Causes, Sacred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.91, Rajpal & Sons

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• The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, May, Found

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom.

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Christian, Hands, Soul

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• O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Eye, Play

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat.

  Howard Dean

  Iraq, United States, Would Be

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Opponents, Coups, Organized

  "'They Were Truly Idiots'". Interview with Matthias Schepp and Christian Neef, www.spiegel.de. August 16, 2011.

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• I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Believe, Victory, Nationalism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Depressing, Team

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Ashamed, Disgrace, Do The Best

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat. I don't think there's any other way to argue it. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is a separate question.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, Iraq, United States

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2005.

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• I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, Civilization, Games

  Interview with Ben Ehrenreich, www.believermag.com. April 2006.

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• I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Competition, Looks, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Our brave men and women have made many sacrifices in just wars to defeat the forces of evil. We have exported our greatest values: freedom and opportunity, which have lifted millions out of poverty. At home, these values allow Americans to use their God-given potential and make their dreams reality.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, War, Home

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Everybody reacts differently. For me defeat lingers around for different time periods. I can dwell on some for five minutes or sometimes I can still be thinking about it a week later. It all comes down to experience. You need to reflect on your mistakes and move on. Luckily you always get the opportunity to turn things around in your next performance.

  Filo Tiatia

  Mistake, Moving, Opportunity

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, War, Poverty

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• I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

  Carrie Fisher

  Occasions

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Carrie Fisher". Interview with Nancy Tobin, www.bphope.com. February 1, 2010.

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• . . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!

  Jack London

  Life, Whales, Justice

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• You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Spring, Thinking

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• Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.

  Robin Cook

  Agency, Occupation, Als

  "The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means" by Robin Cook, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2005.

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• You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

  Roger Kahn

  Song, Falling In Love, Team

  Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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• It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?

  James Grant

  Purpose, Want, Kind

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• To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Fashion, Suffering, Trying

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