Defeat Quotes - Page 24

• And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

  Dr. Dre

  Feet

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• Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.

  Mike Mentzer

  Hero, Frustration, Men

  Mike Mentzer, John Little (2002). “High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way”, Mcgraw-hill

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• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

  Maya Angelou

  Vitality, Encounters, May

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Thinking, Victory, Creatures

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.119, Harmony

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• If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dream, Believe, Temporary Defeat

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.

  Winston Churchill

  Needs, Champagne, Deserve

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• In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

  Franz Stampfl

  Athlete, Achievement, Rivals

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• Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.

  Victorio

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

  Seth Godin

  Organization, People, Honest

  "The truth about the war for talent" by Seth Godin, seths.blog. September 18, 2013.

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• Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Fighting, Enemy, Technique

  "It's A Lot Like Dancing: An Aikido Journey". Book by Terry Dobson, 1993.

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• You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you.
  Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power.
  Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.

  Rob Brezsny

  Stars, Victory, Vices

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• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Victory

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• For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspire, Losing, Loser

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• To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

  Peter Sellers

  Labels, Comedy, Subjects

  "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 1999.

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• We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Causes, Reason Why

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• The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.

  Emile de Girardin

  Change, Army, Flying

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• The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Crush, Memories

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• We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

  Vernon Howard

  Light, Deceiving

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• The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Race, Law

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.127, Univ of California Press

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• Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

  Suzy Kassem

  Sleep, Misery, Cheat

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• The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Fighting, Trying, Devil

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• Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The same priciple applies to people. The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Keys, Roots, Long

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• We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.

  Saddam Hussein

  Iraq, Evil, Suffering

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• In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people.

  John Ashcroft

  War, Moving, Color

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• We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

  Denis Kearney

  Hype, Gold, Needs

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