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  Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Positive, Success, Gymnastics

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• If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  War, Long, Victory

  "All Men Are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.

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• No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

  Napoleon Hill

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.34, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heart, Testing Yourself, Good And Bad

  "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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• Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  Og Mandino

  Struggle, Victory And Defeat, Obstacles

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

  Tony Blair

  Choices, Understanding, Mind

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Inspiring, Failure

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.590, Vintage

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• Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.

  Doc Hastings

  Believe, May, Terrorism

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• Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Criticism, Kind, Pessimism

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• For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

  William Wordsworth

  Victory And Defeat, Energy, Principles

  William Wordsworth (1857). “The excursion, being a portion of The recluse, a poem”, p.107

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• You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Character, Survival

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• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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• There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

  Alfred Adler

  Sides, Steps, Useless

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• The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Emotional, Winning

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Player, Games

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Believe, Failure

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• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Character, Personality, Triumph

  'The Poets' (1876)

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• In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

  Robert Collier

  Lying, Adversity, Winning

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Frustration, Power, Grace

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• Many a good man I have seen go under.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Good Man

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• I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Coaching, Victory

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• To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Inspirational, Life, Basketball

  Francis Marion Crawford (1910). “The Complete Works”

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• Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Failure, Boredom, Bustle

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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