Defeat Quotes - Page 18

• My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.

  Brian Tee

  Art, Uncles, Military

  "‘Mortal Kombat Legacy 2’ actor Brian Tee talks darker take on Liu Kang". Hero Complex interview, herocomplex.latimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Kings, Teaching, Hard Work

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

  Indira Gandhi

  Victory, Lasts, Resources

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• Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

  Bruce Catton

  Spirit, Dignity, Moments

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• Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Ideas, Victory, May

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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• The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

  Joseph Epstein

  Class, Style, May

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• Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

  Wendell Phillips

  Destiny, Men, Lasts

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.274

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• The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Country, War, Years

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

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• I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

  Edward Teller

  Enormous, Ifs

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• What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

  John Henry Jowett

  Trying, Elements, Resolution

  John Henry Jowett (1916). “The Whole Armour of God”

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• Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.

  William Styron

  Writing, Past, Judging

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.417, Random House

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• The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

  B. J. Thomas

  Sadness, Long, Steps

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• Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

  Willard Gaylin

  Jealousy, Struggle, Envy

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Fall, Problem, Surrender

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• As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

  Burt Lancaster

  Long, Curiosity, Age

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• Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

  Samora Machel

  Discipline, Relaxation, Laziness

  Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”

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• The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

  Charles Handy

  Strong, Business, Men

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, p.90, Harvard Business Press

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• Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

  Denis McDonough

  America, Als, Violence

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• All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Country, Terrorism

  "CNN Late edition with Wolf Blitzer". www.cnn.com. March 19, 2006.

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• We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

  Nick Clooney

  Evil, Becoming

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• Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

  Stafford Cripps

  Axes, Evil, Design

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• As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

  Nonito Donaire

  Team, Thinking, Class

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• We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.

  Raul Grijalva

  Country, Creating, Issues

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• I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Kindness, Guy, Demand

  "Mary-Louise Parker: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.

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