Defeated Quotes - Page 14

• To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.

  Jozef Pilsudski

  Victory, Defeat, Laurels

  "Piłsudski: A Life For Poland". Book by Wacław Jędrzejewicz, 1982.

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• If you think you can, then you’re half way there. If you say, ‘I can’t,’ then you’re defeated.

  Debbi Fields

  Thinking, Half, Way

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• Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.

  Lin Biao

  Splits, Imperialism, Colossus

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• Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to solve. In reality, however, being patient is far from being passive. There is nothing strong or courageous in reacting to hardship or insults with anger - all we are doing is being defeated by our delusions.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Strong, Acceptance, Reality

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• All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Grace, Survival, Encounters

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• AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Acceptance, Numbers, Support

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• Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Grows, Righteous Anger

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.321, Bantam

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• Muslims cannot be defeated by others. We Muslims are not defeated by our enemies, but instead, we are defeated by our own selves.

  Sheikh Abdullah

  Self, Enemy

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• Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.

  Robert E. Lee

  Country, Powerful, Men

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• It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

  Frederick The Great

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• Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His agent doesn’t love him (enough). The blank sheet of paper is an enemy. The publisher is a cheapskate. The critic is a philistine. The public doesn’t understand him. His wife doesn’t understand him. The bartender doesn’t understand him.

  Peter Mayle

  Wife, Enemy, Agents

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from May 29, 2011

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• Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Views, Speak Your Mind, Ego

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 22, 2013

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• One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

  Robert Breault

  Dream, Forever, Problem

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• Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Faith, Mean, Effort

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated by the down-drag of the flesh, defeated by loss, by pain, by suffering, by worry. Instead of saying with confidence, ?This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith?, they have to say in honesty, ?This is the defeat that has been caused by the world, even our self-centeredness.? That is the opposite of faith. Unbelief is not the opposite of faith; self-centeredness is ? being centered in self rather than in God.

  Sam Shoemaker

  Faith, Christian, Honesty

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• That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Victory, Happens, Knows

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• Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Land

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• The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Defeat, Crosses

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• There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

  Henry Timrod

  Lying, Mourning, Spots

  Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.210

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• I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

  Kara Lindsay

  Teacher, Rain, Mean

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• I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.

  Tim Cahill

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

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• At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Sarcastic, Father, Night

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• The power of the gospel lies[...] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been defeated, that God's new world has begun.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Powerful, Lying

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• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

  Maya Angelou

  Vitality, Encounters, May

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• There will be times when you will be frightened and discouraged. You may feel that you are defeated. The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember-David did win!

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Fighting, Winning

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