Defeat Quotes - Page 35

• The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Father, Heart, Needs

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.161, Revell

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• The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Evil, Use, May

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• We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree that the break is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. It is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Real, Winning

  Speech at the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria, www.marxists.org. February 24, 1965.

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• You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Winning, Battle, Triumph

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• I knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would offer a sharp policy contrast. Someone who would not just pay lip service to limited government principles, but had a solid record of voting that way time and again. I'm that candidate.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Voting, Way

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• Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

  Robert Henri

  Struggle, Enjoy

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.

  Floyd Patterson

  Victory, Littles, I've Learned

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• Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Real, Struggle, Games

  Bruce Pandolfini (2008). “Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.

  Jean Shepherd

  Good Day, White, Victory

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• Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

  Aristotle

  Opposites, Decision, Employment

  Aristotle, John Henry Freese (1926). “Aristotle: the art of rhetoric”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Self, Temporary Defeat

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• But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  People, Moral, Stills

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• The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I didn't have a problem with either one - but somehow I didn't equate either one of them to the academic world.

  Tom Selleck

  Two, Preparation, Acting

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It only cost Mitt Romney $76.6 million to defeat a serial adulterer and a mental patient in a sweater vest.

  Andy Borowitz

  Sweaters, Cost, Vests

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Apr 25, 2012

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• Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Stronger, Overcoming, Emotion

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• There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Answers

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Jesus on the Cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it, he defeats it with his resurrection.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Evil, Weight

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• The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

  Honore de Balzac

  Parent, Victory, Orphan

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• Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.

  Walter de La Mare

  Adventure, Imagination, Kind

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• Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Thinking, Circumstances, Ifs

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• The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes for victory.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Believe, Doubt, Victory

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

  James Dickey

  Suicide, Artist, Frustration

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• Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

  Pete Rose

  Ease, Faces, Accepting

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• I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that we have to be aggressive in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel and defeat the Keystone Pipeline.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Energy, Climate

  "Sen Bernie Sanders on gun control: 'I do not accept the fact that I have been weak on this issue. In fact, I have been strong on this issue'". "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. August 30, 2015.

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• The greatest victory is defeat.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Greatest Victory, Victory

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