Defeat Quotes - Page 25

• We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Real, War, Views

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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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• To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Simple, Men, Choices

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• I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.

  Melita Norwood

  People, Ordinary, Cost

  Quoted in the New York Times, 13 September 1999. Treason for health care! Why did the USSR's spies never seem to know anything true about the USSR?

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• He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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• There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Differences, Wit

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• I always say that in order to appreciate warm weather, you must experience cold. I wouldn't change one thing - all the embarrassing moments, the defeats, all of everything - through all of this, I have learned me.

  Floyd Patterson

  Sports, Order, Weather

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• Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Victory, Half

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• So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Night

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• There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

  Dan Gable

  Leadership, Sports, Hate

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• The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Responsibility, Fighting, Essence

  "Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara". Book by Andrew Sinclair, 2006.

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• How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a concentration upon certain beauties, though forever lost and unretrievable, can lift the wounded past roundedness and the dying past dying, protecting them with an image, still and bright, that will ride with them on their long ride, never to fade and never to retreat.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Past, Light

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• Jesus on the cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it; he defeats it with his resurrection. This is the good that Jesus does for us on the throne of the cross. Christ's cross, embraced with love, never leads to sadness, but to joy, to the joy of having been saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Sadness, Evil

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• So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I
  have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.

  Herbert Hoover

  Years, Feelings, Mind

  "Hoover Off the Record". Book by Theodore Joslin, 1934.

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• More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, People, Victory

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Father, Believe, Heart

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.50, Revell

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• If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well.

  Joyce Meyer

  Satan, Wells, Ifs

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2013

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• Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations.
  One scholar is matched with another; one creative mind with another; and one judicious temperament with his counterpart. A victory won on that field counts for three won by force of arms.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Kings, Army, Creative

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

  Bill James

  Winning, Dodge, Election

  "‘Moneyball’ Godfather Bill James Tackles Politics In Super PAC Age" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.

  Myron Tribus

  People, Goal, Effort

  "Quality First: Selected Papers on Quality & Productivity Improvement". Book by Myron Tribus, Washington, D.C.: National Society of Professional Engineers (#1459), 1992.

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• An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

  Guy Finley

  Self, Mind, Breeding

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Sep 19, 2014

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• Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Safety, Wiping Out, Knees

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• I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.

  Tom Dunne

  Soccer, New Year, Football

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• Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.

  Edward Gorey

  Distance, Twilight, Party

  Edward Gorey (1953). “The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel”, Harcourt

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• There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.

  James Lileks

  War, Believe, Ideas

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