Defeat Quotes

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  Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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  Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Positive, Success, Gymnastics

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Business, War, Fighting

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• Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

  Robert South

  Motivation, Failure, Discouragement

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  When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, God, Disappointment

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Brida: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

  Josephus Daniels

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Positive, Sports

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3045, Library of Alexandria

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• So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Badass, Military

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Opportunity

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.12, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Sunset, Winning

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.108, RosettaBooks

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• My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Christian, White, House

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• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Sacrifice, Self

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• Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

  Michael Medved

  Pain, Winning, California

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• The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

  Roy Acuff

  Tennessee, Done, Democrat

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

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• I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

  Jay-Z

  Dope, Lesson Learned, Lessons

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• I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

  Oskar Schindler

  Power, Schindler's List

  "Schindler's List". Book by Thomas Keneally, Ch. 15., October 18, 1982.

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• The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

  Sun Tzu

  Lying, Art Of War, Opportunity

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

  Christy Mathewson

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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

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  There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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