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

  Robert South

  Motivation, Failure, Discouragement

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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 never comes to any man until he admits it.

  Josephus Daniels

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

  James Ellis

  Men, Brave, Victory

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• To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

  Neal Ascherson

  Giving, Victory, Defeated

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• Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

  Kobo Abe

  Lost

  Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.124, Vintage

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• It is defeat which educates us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Educate

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• It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Bones, Muscles

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Men, Victory

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• The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Victory, Negative

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• The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

  Austin O'Malley

  Interesting, Important, Facts

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• It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.

  Ben Robertson

  Years

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• We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

  George William Russell

  Spiritual, Hate, Fighting

  "The Living Torch, A.E". Book by Monk Gibbon, 1937.

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• Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?

  Rosa Parks

  Powerful, Victory, Revolution

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• As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

  Mohammed Omar

  Fire, America, United States

  "Mullah Omar Quoted as Saying U.S. Is Doomed", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Fear, Simple

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• There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Hangover, Player, Games

  "Eriksson goes against his basic instincts" by Kevin McCarra, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.

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