Defeat Quotes - Page 26

• If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.

  Brené Brown

  Hurt, Disappointment, Moving

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.62, Penguin

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• Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

  Hans Selye

  Depressing, Failure, Past

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at.

  Dawna Markova

  Cancer, Team, Healing

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.39, Conari Press

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• Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us

  Zoran

  Compassion, Enemy, Mercy

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• The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Defeated, Crosses

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• The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

  Winston Churchill

  Loss, Feelings, Finals

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Strength, Strong, Men

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• Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

  Erich Fromm

  Love Life, Life And Death, Life Is

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• Defeat may be victory in disguise.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Victory, May, Disguise

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

  Max Lerner

  Success, Triumph, Easy

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• We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

  Robert Breault

  Purpose, Action, Organized

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• I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  Taya Kyle

  Evil, Challenges, Cain And Abel

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• Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated by the down-drag of the flesh, defeated by loss, by pain, by suffering, by worry. Instead of saying with confidence, ?This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith?, they have to say in honesty, ?This is the defeat that has been caused by the world, even our self-centeredness.? That is the opposite of faith. Unbelief is not the opposite of faith; self-centeredness is ? being centered in self rather than in God.

  Sam Shoemaker

  Faith, Christian, Honesty

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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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• 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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• Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.

  Rosika Schwimmer

  War, Men, Rights

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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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• 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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• To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Enemy, Battle

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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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• 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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• The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Air, Triumph, Arms

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