Defeated Quotes - Page 10

• Musashi, who trained himself, became a master swordsman who was never defeated.

  Kerr Cuhulain

  Masters, Swordsman

  Kerr Cuhulain (2002). “Full Contact Magick: A Book of Shadows for the Wiccan Warrior”, p.187, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Where is the "unexplored land" but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is "unexplored land," to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.

  Henry David Thoreau

  New York, Ambition, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.277, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, War, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being someone who prays or fasts doesn't mean you want an Islamic state. Islam in the form of the Iranian state has been defeated in the Arab world. All Islamist movements now want to copy the Turkish model.

  Burhan Ghalioun

  Islamic, Mean, World

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• If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Warrior

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• Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

  William Carlos Williams

  Writing, Men, Conviction

  William Carlos Williams, Ron Loewinsohn (1974). “The Embodiment of Knowledge”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Pain, Sadness, Profound

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006). “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln”, p.724, Simon and Schuster

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• What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections. I trust the measure will turn out well. It is a great relief to me. Defeat in this way, after a full and public hearing before this [Electoral] Commission, is not mortifying in any degree, and success will be in all respects more satisfactory.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Hearing, Degrees, Relief

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• Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

  John Masefield

  Strong, Battle, Shows

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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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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• God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

  James Dobson

  Heart, Names, Tears

  James C. Dobson (2012). “When God Doesn't Make Sense”, p.198, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Victory lies in not getting defeated.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Lying, Victory

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• If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  East, Acres, Conquer

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.

  Ida Tarbell

  Children, Work, Sleep

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• I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.

  Ali Sina

  Giving, Laughing, Psychology

  Source: myislam.dk

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• You see in Turkey, they had a remarkable success story in building up a democracy. I was in Istanbul for most of the year 1950. That was the year when the government held free and fair election, was defeated and simply withdrew from power and handed it over to the opposition, without precedent in Middle Eastern history. That was a really remarkable time and it was a fascinating and rewarding experience to be there at that time.

  Bernard Lewis

  Democracy, Election, Building

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• Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian democracy for a few years but she also was the woman who had defeated Pakistan in war at a time when most male politicians in India had secretly feared fighting that war, so that here in India even today Indira Gandhi is called by Indian nationalists the only man ever to have governed India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Mother, Powerful, War

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Heaven, Victory, Age

  Gregory A. Boyd (1997). “God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict”, p.254, InterVarsity Press

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• To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Essence, Killing

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

  Emily Dickinson

  Purple, Victory, Dying

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.24, Modern Library

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• A true champion is not only formed in victory. To be defeated makes you learn.

  Renan Barao

  Mma, Champion, Victory

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• The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.

  Jack Johnson

  Future, Pirate, Age

  Song: The Horizon Has Been Defeated, Album: On And On

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• Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Men, Long

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Army, Needs, Lessons

  "“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 31, 1920.

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