Defeated Quotes - Page 21

• In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of the defeated enemy. Nowadays, it is much more terrifying because a person in an office can push a button and kill millions of people and never see the human tragedy that he or she has created. The mechanization of war, the mechanization of human conflict, poses an increasing threat to peace.

  Dalai Lama

  War, Blood, Office

  "Pathways to Peace: Interreligious Readings and Reflections". Book by A. Jean Lesher, p. 111, 2005.

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• Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Land

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• That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Victory, Happens, Knows

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• Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

  Agatha Christie

  Real, Cutting, Ends

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”, p.90, Booklassic

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• Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated by the down-drag of the flesh, defeated by loss, by pain, by suffering, by worry. Instead of saying with confidence, ?This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith?, they have to say in honesty, ?This is the defeat that has been caused by the world, even our self-centeredness.? That is the opposite of faith. Unbelief is not the opposite of faith; self-centeredness is ? being centered in self rather than in God.

  Sam Shoemaker

  Faith, Christian, Honesty

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• Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Faith, Mean, Effort

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

  Robert Breault

  Dream, Forever, Problem

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• The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Defeat, Crosses

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• There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

  Henry Timrod

  Lying, Mourning, Spots

  Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.210

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• Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

  Paul Harvey

  College, Politics, Communism

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• When nothing was, then God was there,
  Had nothing been God would have been;
  My being has defeated me,
  Had I not been, what would have been.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Has Beens

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Ralph Russell (2000). “The Famous Ghalib”

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• Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.

  Alison Croggon

  Glasses, Smell, Old Friends

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• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

  George Orwell

  Love, Loyalty, Essence

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you muster that courage to stand under fire and not go down, you will amass an inner strength that no one can touch. You won’t be another faceless, nameless, forgotten human in a long historical line of the defeated. You will be a steeled warrior, and a force to be forever reckoned with. And beneath the pain that lingers, you will have the comfort of knowing that you are strongest of all. That when others caved and broke, you kept fighting even against hopeless odds.” - Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Fighting, Warrior

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• Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Battle, Firsts

  Paulo Coelho (2013). “Manuscript Found in Accra”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’ Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Warrior, Winning

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• Because if I see you defeated, then I think I will see Alban defeated, and if that happens, none of us can go on. To guard you is to guard the heart of this land of ours.

  Juliet Marillier

  Heart, Thinking, Land

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• For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

  Cressida Cowell

  Hero, Character, Triumph

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• Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

  Jane Espenson

  Men, Good Man, Opponents

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• You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Quitting

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• Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.

  Pablo Neruda

  Stars, Journey, Air

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• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

  Maya Angelou

  Vitality, Encounters, May

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• The power of the gospel lies[...] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been defeated, that God's new world has begun.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Powerful, Lying

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• Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fall, Winter, Thinking

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• Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during the revolt of 1857. Even after she was defeated she defied Queen Victoria's famous Proclamation and issued a counter Proclamation.

  Qurratulain Hyder

  Queens, Army, Battle

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