Defeat Quotes - Page 28

• Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

  Robert Trout

  Empires, Today, Never Forget

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• If Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand something, it’s not defeat. It’s not even something he has to accept. It’s merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.

  Sarah Lacy

  Zuckerberg, Challenges, Needs

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are.  If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Morning, Long

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• I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

  George McGovern

  Winning, Thinking, President

  George Stanley McGovern (1974). “An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern”, New York : Random House

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• The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

  Eddie McGuire

  Culture, Mediocrity, Accepting

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• Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to
  prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get,
  that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian
  Jiu-jitsu is.

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Art, Strong, Men

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• The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

  Criss Jami

  Sides, Conflict, Force

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.54, Criss Jami

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• Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.

  Robert Greene

  Details, Looks, Conquer

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• It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

  Vernon Howard

  Wise, Ambition, Immortality

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• In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Army, Stronger

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• Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

  Kathleen Dowling Singh

  Growth, Tragedy, Looks

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• I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

  George H. W. Bush

  Happiness, Thinking, Hard

  www.pbs.org. May 5, 2008.

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• Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Procrastination, Men, Despair

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

  Bruce Barton

  Failure, Grace, Style

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• Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

  Hugh Prather

  Victory, Mixtures, Problem

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.42, Bantam

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• New York is not a city to return to in defeat.

  Moss Hart

  New York, Cities, Return

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain

  Sarah Palin

  Mean, Winning, Men

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

  Robert G. Allen

  Fighting, Winning, Victory

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Through wrestling, through the hard work and the sweat, through the victories and the defeats, we learn a great deal about ourselves. Wrestling shows you your limits, your weaknesses, your strengths and, ultimately, you grow because of what it shows you.

  Jay Robinson

  Hard Work, Wrestling, Sweat

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• Some defeats are only installments to victory.

  Jacob August Riis

  Inspiring, Children, Victory

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• If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Pride, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.115, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.

  Marcus Garvey

  Ambition, Self Confidence, Race

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• Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspiration, Blessing, Poverty

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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