Defeated Quotes - Page 22

• It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.

  Richard A. Knaak

  Believe, Battle, Foe

  Richard A. Knaak (2007). “WarCraft War of the Ancients Archive”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.

  Victor LaValle

  Poor

  Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.54, Oldcastle Books

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• Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.

  Robert Collier

  Strong, Kindness, Competition

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Magic Word”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

  Steven Weinberg

  Science, Arguing, Argument

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• The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Adversity, Mountain

  "Lose the Baggage, Lose the Weight: A Woman-to-Woman Recipe for Life" by Lorna Stremcha, p. 63, October 18, 2011.

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• They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wise, Life Lesson, Army

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

  Matthew Quick

  Watches, Pessimism

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• I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.

  Ivo Andric

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• ...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated.

  Dave Barry

  Light, Long, Darkness

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• Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.

  Sister Souljah

  Opposites, Over You, Mind

  Sister Souljah (2013). “The Sister Souljah Collection #1: The Coldest Winter Ever; Midnight, A Gangster Love Story; and Midnight and the Meaning of Love”, p.911, Simon and Schuster

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• I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

  Orson Scott Card

  Giving, Honor, Dignity

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.143, Macmillan

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• Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

  Tennessee Williams

  Games, People, Sick

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

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• Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.' She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Fall, Autumn, Spain

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Morning Gift”, p.126, Pan Macmillan

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• If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

  Paulo Coelho

  Judging, Soul, Trying

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 20, 2012

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• History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Survivor

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.56, Random House

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• Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop
  as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied; if we fail, we are
  ridiculed & attacked. Sadly, this is how people are. Unexpected
  grief & suffering may lie ahead of you. But it is precisely when you
  encounter such trying times that you must not be defeated. NEVER GIVE
  UP! NEVER RETREAT!

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Lying, Grief

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• When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Beautiful, Hero, Mean

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• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winning, Men, Dragons

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Self

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• There will be times when you will be frightened and discouraged. You may feel that you are defeated. The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember-David did win!

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Fighting, Winning

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• Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.

  Philip K. Dick

  Successful, Empathy, Meat

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.

  Alain de Botton

  Important, Benefits, Helping

  Alain de Botton (2010). “A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary”, p.32, Profile Books

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• This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.

  Mira Grant

  Lying, Opportunity, Simple

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• I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fixed

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.240, Penguin

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• I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them once before. Poseidon was under siege and losing a war against the sea Titan Oceanus. Kronos was still out there somewhere. Olympus was virtually undefended. The demigods of Camp Half-Blood were on our own with a spy in our midst. Oh, and according to the ancient prophecy, I was going to die when I turned sixteen—which happened to be in five days, the exact same time Typhon was supposed to hit New York. Almost forgot that.

  Rick Riordan

  New York, War, Fighting

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