Defeat Quotes - Page 34

• One learns more from defeat than from victory.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Victory

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• Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

  Peter Straub

  Dream, Clouds

  Peter Straub (2015). “Ghost Story”, p.259, Penguin

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• What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

  Ameen Rihani

  Triumph, What Is Life, Angle

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• Thinking faith thoughts, and speaking faith words, will lead the heart out of defeat and into victory.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Heart, Thinking, Victory

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• To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

  Maya Angelou

  Challenges, Trying, Divine

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• What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Block, Soul, Victory

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.10

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• In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

  Charles Stanley

  Victory, Events, Know How

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• The Spirit's fullness is not the reward of our faithfulness, but God's gift for our defeat. He was not given to the disciples in Acts 28 as the culmination and reward of their wonderful service, but in Acts 2 when they had proved themselves cowards, meeting behind closed doors.

  Roy Hession

  Doors, Coward, Rewards

  Roy Hession (2013). “Be Filled Now: The Holy Spirit’s Role in Helping Christians Attain Spiritual Maturity”, p.8, CLC Publications

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• Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

  Arthur Ashe

  Beautiful, Games, Victory

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• Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

  Pamela Yates

  Jobs, Victory, Calling

  "Pamela Yates on Her New Documentary Used in Guatemalan Dictator Genocide Trial". Interview with Vanessa Erazo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Fun, Fighting

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• Donald Trump can't come up with a hairstyle that looks human, how can he come up with a plan to defeat ISIS.

  Cher

  Isis, Looks, Trump

  "Cruz responds to Cher's attack on Twitter" By Daniella Diaz, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2015.

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• God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Loss, Men, Evil

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.304, Discovery House

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• My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.

  Blake Judd

  Sorry, Apology, People

  "Scion Rock Fest: Photos and Nachtmystium Controversy" by Amy Phillips and Mike White, pitchfork.com. March 02, 2009.

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• A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

  Julien Gracq

  Victory, Literature, Lists

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• Fear is the trick of the enemy. And your enemy comes in many robes. But he has only one face. You know his face. You've seen it many times. You need not fear it. In your heart, you know you will triumph and you will defeat your enemy with the one weapon that you have inside you that he cannot touch--truth.

  Michael Hainey

  Heart, Enemy, Triumph

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• There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best; the instinct to hope you can win through luck or through your opponent not doing his best, instead of going to the limit and past your limit where victory is always found. Defeating those negative instincts that are out to defeat us, is the difference between winning and losing - and we all face that battle every day.

  Jesse Owens

  Pain, Athlete, Winning

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• General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Meaningful, Mistake, Intelligent

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• A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Devil, Thousand

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• A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Victory, Honorable

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• Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wall, Tennis, Challenges

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• Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  War, Emotion, Inevitable

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• t's important to handle and learn from your defeats. The losses I've had taught me so much because they humbled me. You learn more from them than you do your victories. They can only make you a better fighter and a better man.

  Diego Sanchez

  Loss, Men, Victory

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we maybe don't realize or that the American people don't realize. If other countries have a chance to be stable, then that helps us. If there are ways we can prevent if there are ways we can help other countries defeat diseases, we're about to totally eradicate polio. And can you imagine? That would be so terrific.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Helping Others, Thinking

  "Laura Bush, Melinda Gates, CARE President on Women’s Issues, U.S. Foreign Aid". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.

  Woody Hayes

  Victory, Insufferable, Indomitable

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