Defeated Quotes - Page 19

• No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Defeated You, Victory, Matter

  "The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

  Confucius

  Army, Chinese, Mind

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• A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

  Eric Hoffer

  War, Enemy, Ifs

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, p. 127, 1973.

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• To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us most—suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or another—are defeated. This work is not done as a job, ladies and gentlemen, it is done out of love for the art and the artists who brought it forth, and who still bring it forth to us, down the years and across ignorance and chaos and borderlines.

  Richard Bausch

  Art, Jobs, Wall

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• Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Faith, Steel, Process Of Change

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• I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy—for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Strong, Mean, Opportunity

  Penelope Fitzgerald (2009). “A House of Air”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Every lesbian spearchucker is hoping I get defeated.

  Bob Dornan

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• Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

  Saul Alinsky

  Letting Go, Attitude, Acceptance

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• Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Knowing, Victory, Battle

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

  Walker Percy

  Fighting, Men, Victory

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.

  Charles Caldwell Ryrie

  Christian, Jesus Christ, World

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• Yes, Satan is real, but so is Christ, and someday Satan will be defeated and Christ will rule forever. Don't be deceived, but open your heart and mind to Jesus Christ, and put your life into His hands.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Jesus, Real

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• Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Depression, Fighting, Vitality

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• Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.

  Nicki Minaj

  Fitness, Regret, Refuse

  "Minaj urges fans to 'take charge' in 2011" by Daniel Sperling, www.digitalspy.com. January 3, 2011.

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• The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . . But in his heart of hearts he knows that he is a defeated man and that his cynicism is merely an expression of the fact that he has lost courage and is beaten.

  George Edgar Vincent

  Courage, Fun, Heart

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• The most important thing is not victory, the most important thing is don't get defeated.

  Rickson Gracie

  Art, Mma, Victory

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• When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

  Charles William Eliot

  Work, Heart, Progress

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• A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Peace, Buddhist

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• And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Self

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.310, Lulu.com

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• Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Units

  Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

  Pete Hegseth

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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• If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Yesterday, Deeds, Today

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• A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

  John Harbaugh

  Men, Destroyed

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• If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or self-deception-without a fundamental faith experience-then this would be a much greater miracle than the resurrection itself.

  Pinchas Lapide

  Self, Miracle, Deception

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• For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they believe wrongly that the Holy Spirit convicts believers of their sins.

  Joseph Prince

  Believe, Siege, Body Of Christ

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