Defeat Quotes - Page 39

• There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

  Socrates

  Magnificence, Oneself, Greater

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• Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love You, Opportunity, Enemy

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Men, Creative

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to attack the homeland and we're not doing anything about it. So how do you defeat the ideology? Build up others? You reject Rand Paul.

  Rand Paul

  Stress, Team, Army

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Gun control is not part of a strategy to defeat radical Islam or take ISIL down. However it is a problem back here at home. A million people have been adjudicated a danger to themselves or to others at the state court level.

  Rand Paul

  Home, Gun, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Reality, Perfect

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• It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Victory, Trying, May

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• Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thinking, America, Want

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• At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis!

  Walter Smith

  Rangers, Crisis

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• Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

  Orson Welles

  Stories, World, Paradise

  Orson Welles, Bridget Gellert Lyons (1988). “Chimes at Midnight”, p.262, Rutgers University Press

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• The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.

  Henry Rollins

  Crush, Song, Memories

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• At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fighting, Isis, Hands

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• The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, War, United States

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• So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.

  Stanley Cavell

  Photography, Long, Wish

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• Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Inspire, Desire, Loser

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• The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'

  Ralph Nader

  Democracy, Flags, Lines

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• ...the aim was to mobilize Christians to proclaim the name of Jesus and to pronounce the defeat of the spiritual forces entrenched in the capital.

  Gerald Coates

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Book, Acceptance, Winning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• [Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans' records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they're both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Records, Constitution

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• There are millions of peaceful Muslims across the world, in countries like India, where there is not the problems we are seeing in nations that are controlled - have territory controlled by Al Qaida or ISIS, and we should direct at the problem, focus on the problem, and defeat radical Islamic terrorism. It's not a war on a faith; it's a war on a political and theocratic ideology that seeks to murder us.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, War, Islamic

  CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining this great apocalyptic movement that is going to defeat the West.

  Marco Rubio

  War, Winning, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The focus ought to be on the single fact that Hillary Clinton wants to double down on a failed foreign policy and we need to be united to defeat that because we're going to be in a place that is far less secure than it is today.

  Jeb Bush

  Focus, Needs, Want

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Ego

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• I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Victory, Vietnamese

  William Ayers (2009). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Guilt, Stronger

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes”, p.308

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