Defeat Quotes - Page 21

• If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Errors, Grace, Religion

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mean, Doors, Delay

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivational, Practice, Work Out

  Daniel Goleman (2013). “Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence”, p.114, A&C Black

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• It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.

  Conor McGregor

  Mma, Secret, Ingredients

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• One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

  Anderson Silva

  Mma, Victory, Bitter

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• Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It's the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Winning, Inspire

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• If you're humble in defeat, everyone may still kick you, but they won't kick you as much.

  Forrest Griffin

  Humble, Mma, May

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• I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

  Conor McGregor

  Humble, Cocky, Ufc

  YouTube Chanel "MMAWeekly.com"/ "The Conor McGregor Show (UFC 178 Post Press)", www.youtube.com. September 28, 2014.

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• Let your opponent show you how to defeat him

  Wong Shun Leung

  Opponents, Shows

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• We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

  James C. Collins

  Mistake, Choices, Circumstances

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• A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Pride, Victory

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Cracks, Matter

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• Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Teacher, Laughter, Opportunity

  William Hazlitt (2004). “On the Pleasure of Hating”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Kings, Revenge

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 638

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• When the heavens are with you, when the earth is with you, when the sea is with you, when the wind is with you. Who's going to defeat you after that? Nobody.

  Anjem Choudary

  Wind, Sea, Heaven

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Blow, Israel, Faithful

  Lesslie Newbigin (1995). “The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission”, p.73, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross is indeed king - conqueror of death and sin, Lord and Savior of all. The resurrection is not the reversal of a defeat but the proclamation of a victory. The King reigns from the tree. The reign of God has indeed come upon us, and its sign is not a golden throne but a wooden cross.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Jesus, Kings, Tree

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• The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

  Franz Stampfl

  Athlete, Conquer, Cross Country Running

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• If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

  RZA

  Self, Definitions, Ifs

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.89, Penguin

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• The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Imagination, Doubt

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.77

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• Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

  Richard Wagner

  War, Men, Victory And Defeat

  Richard Wagner (1966). “Prose works”

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• People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

  John Bolton

  Victory And Defeat, People, Victory

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• Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.

  Wendell Phillips

  Soldier, Victory, Liberty

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

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• The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Organization, Paris

  Letter to Philipp Van Patten, www.marxists.org. April 18, 1883.

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• You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

  Matthew Thomas

  Victory And Defeat, Victory, This Life

  Matthew Thomas (2014). “We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

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