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• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Attitude, Failure

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

  Colin Powell

  Moving, Progress, Taliban

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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  The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fall, Government, Hands

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• If you can accept losing, you can't win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Football, Winning

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• Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.

  Roger Angell

  Baseball, Time, Forever

  FaceBook post by Roger Angell from May 10, 2017

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• Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

  George Pickett

  Military, War, Sleep

  George Edward Pickett, La Salle Corbell Pickett (1913). “The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett”

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• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

  Debbie Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Greatness

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• The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

  Jubal Early

  Military, War, Army

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• Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Disappointment, Despair, Tools

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 03, 2014

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• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Loss, Player

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• Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

  Helen Keller

  Ideas, Tyranny, Power Of Ideas

  "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings" exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 13, 2003.

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• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.13, Penguin

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• I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Feb 18, 2013

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• Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Believe, Long, Facts

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “A Guide to Confident Living”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Sports, Determination

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 10, 2014

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• The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.

  Peter Pace

  Country, Iraq, Needs

  "Bush, Blair to hold summit on Iraq", www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.

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• The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

  Ivor Novello

  Real, Light, Long

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• If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Sex, Moral, Conviction

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Teamwork, Volleyball

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Deep Thought, Victory, Details

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

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