Defeat Quotes - Page 38

• You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Winning, Battle, Triumph

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• I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.

  Floyd Patterson

  Victory, Littles, I've Learned

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• Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Real, Struggle, Games

  Bruce Pandolfini (2008). “Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

  Aristotle

  Opposites, Decision, Employment

  Aristotle, John Henry Freese (1926). “Aristotle: the art of rhetoric”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Self, Temporary Defeat

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• There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Answers

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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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.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Evil, Weight

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• On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts. We are not alone; all the countries and people in the world opposed to imperialism are our friends. Nevertheless, we stress regeneration through our own efforts. Relying on the forces we ourselves organize, we can defeat all Chinese and foreign reactionaries.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Stress, Struggle

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Twilight, Victory

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• We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

  James Dickey

  Suicide, Artist, Frustration

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• Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

  Pete Rose

  Ease, Faces, Accepting

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• I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that we have to be aggressive in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel and defeat the Keystone Pipeline.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Energy, Climate

  "Sen Bernie Sanders on gun control: 'I do not accept the fact that I have been weak on this issue. In fact, I have been strong on this issue'". "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. August 30, 2015.

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• Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?

  Eamon de Valera

  Heart, Fighting, Years

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• A wrong motive involves defeat.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Motive

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.533, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man's interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves Him to interfere in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the devil in his schemes to ruin man. Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Moving, Angel

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• If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

  William Moulton Marston

  Ability, Draws, Factors

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• If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Lying, Mean

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• If we want to defeat Islamic State, we first have to arrive at a cease-fire agreement in Syria. Once that has been achieved, an anti-IS coalition can be assembled, including Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran. That, however, will be significantly more difficult in the wake of Turkey's downing of the Russian plane.

  Martin Schulz

  Islamic, Fire, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat.

  Jeanne Robertson

  Perseverance, Disappointment

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• He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.

  Erwin Rommel

  Upset, Black, Looks

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• The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Struggle, Winning

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• The biggest challenge at the national level is to defeat communal forces for which the support of the Left parties was essential but the party is opposed to the Left in Kerala because UDF's aim is to ensure economic development and social harmony.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Party, Support, Challenges

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• The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

  Dai Vernon

  Mind, Steps, Logic

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• Even if your skin is perfect, even if it's glowing and beautiful, electric lights defeat you. They deaden the complexion, make it look drab. They rob you of color...In the evening, you just can't play the natural kid bit, that fresh-scrubbed look.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Beautiful, Kids, Light

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• Some of the colonizers do understand and quickly retreat, while some, because they are stupid, continue colonizing others, increasing the suffering, deaths, injuries, defeat and humiliation. The people colonized by Abyssinia will be free. Eritrea will be free, and they cannot refuse to let them be free. Western Somalia will be free, and they cannot refuse to grant it freedom. The numerous Abo will be free because this is history, and no one can prevent the sunshine from reaching us.

  Siad Barre

  Stupid, Sunshine, People

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