Defeat Quotes - Page 36

• You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Spring, Thinking

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• Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.

  Robin Cook

  Agency, Occupation, Als

  "The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means" by Robin Cook, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2005.

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• You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

  Roger Kahn

  Song, Falling In Love, Team

  Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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• You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

  Roger Kahn

  Falling In Love, Team, May

  Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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• In life, friendships change, divorces happen, people move on, others die. Money and jobs will come and go. Live long enough and your health and body will change. It goes with the territory of being human. The fact that you are still here gives you an advantage. Don't look back. Look straight ahead!! Decide to use all of your knowledge, skills, experiences and your life lessons from your mistakes, defeats and setbacks, to start over again. Life changes. You may not have the same life as before, but you can still enjoy your life!

  Les Brown

  Jobs, Mistake, Life Changing

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• Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you a more compassionate peaceful person. Refuse to open your mind to other people's trash. Tune out anything that promotes conflict or controversy. This can infect you with a mind virus of cynicism or defeat, and you won't even know it!

  Les Brown

  Garbage Cans, Imagination, People

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• I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

  John Byrne

  People, Way, Length

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• With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way.

  Elizabeth George

  Peace, Heart, Knowing

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.72, Harvest House Publishers

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• Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

  Edward Young

  Gratitude, Giving, Empires

  Edward Young (1811). “The Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young”, p.80

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• I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into.

  Amy Adams

  Want, Chickens, Broccoli

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2013.

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• In an argument, you may silence your opponent by pressing an advantage of strength or of wealth, or of education. But you do not really convince him. Though he is no longer saying anything, in his heart he still keeps to his opinion, the only way to make him change that opinion is to speak quietly and reasonably. When he understands that you are not trying to defeat him, but only to find the truth, he will listen to you and perhaps accept what you tell him.

  Kano Jigoro

  Heart, Silence, Trying

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• Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Men, People

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• The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Doomed

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• Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

  George Orwell

  Series

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• The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Winning, Understanding, Aftermath

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• Defeating ISIS. If we do not defeat them abroad, we will be facing more and more of a threat at home. This does not require an occupation or an enduring ground operation.

  Lee Zeldin

  Home, Isis, Doe

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• You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Running, Causes

  Will Rogers (1927). “There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia: & Other Bare Facts”, New York, A. & C. Boni

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• One learns more from defeat than from victory.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Victory

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• Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

  Peter Straub

  Dream, Clouds

  Peter Straub (2015). “Ghost Story”, p.259, Penguin

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• What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

  Ameen Rihani

  Triumph, What Is Life, Angle

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• Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

  Pamela Yates

  Jobs, Victory, Calling

  "Pamela Yates on Her New Documentary Used in Guatemalan Dictator Genocide Trial". Interview with Vanessa Erazo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Fun, Fighting

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• God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Loss, Men, Evil

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.304, Discovery House

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• My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.

  Blake Judd

  Sorry, Apology, People

  "Scion Rock Fest: Photos and Nachtmystium Controversy" by Amy Phillips and Mike White, pitchfork.com. March 02, 2009.

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• A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

  Julien Gracq

  Victory, Literature, Lists

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