Defeat Quotes - Page 9

• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 09, 2014

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• To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.

  Giulio Douhet

  Military, Mean, Air

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.51, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Believe, Sweat, People

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• With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

  Kelly Miller

  Fall, Germany, Strange

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights ...: Why America Entered the Conflict ...& a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

  Harvey Cushing

  Educational, Individualism, Ends

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• We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Victory And Defeat

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• Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

  Kate Smith

  Prejudice, Opinion, Employers

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• Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Military, Two Sides, Preparation

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Winning, Giving, Aggression

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

  Nick Clooney

  Becoming, Nazi

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• I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

  Beverley Nichols

  Flower, Garden, Overcoming

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• In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

  Henry Miller

  Death, Moving, Men

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

  Ann Landers

  Courage, Eye, Looks

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• Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Hope, Victory

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

  Roger Crawford

  Encouraging, Optimistic, Adversity

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• In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Enders Game, Moments

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

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• I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

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• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Success, Peace, Freedom

  United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4, February 15, 1954.

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• There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspirational, Success, Stay Strong

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• Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

  John F. Kennedy

  Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Domestic Policy

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• What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

  Wendell Phillips

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.282

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  The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

  Marcus Garvey

  Confidence, Race, Self

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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