Defeat Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Perseverance, Soul, Victory

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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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• Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Spiritual, Fun, Pain

  Norman Vincent Peale (1977). “The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...”, Hallmark Cards

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• The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Song, Memories, Civilization

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Gopal (1980). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology”, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

  Brian Stann

  Mma, Making Peace, Performances

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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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• Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.

  Orrin Woodward

  Humble, Hopeful, Victory

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• Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hero, Heart, Persistence

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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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• 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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• The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Egypt, Iran

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• Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de  faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Long, Victory, Enough

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• Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

  Aga Khan III

  Inspirational, Encouraging, God

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• Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Tragedy, Ends, Our Lives

  Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011). “I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity”, p.212, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Inner Strength, Faces, Negative

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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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• Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people--what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest level of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Dream, Ocean, People

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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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• I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’

  Brian Kiley

  Book, Self, Purpose

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• For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Memories, Heart, Thoughtful

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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