Defeated Quotes - Page 15

• When nothing was, then God was there,
  Had nothing been God would have been;
  My being has defeated me,
  Had I not been, what would have been.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Has Beens

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Ralph Russell (2000). “The Famous Ghalib”

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• Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

  Paul Harvey

  College, Politics, Communism

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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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• The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Defeat, Crosses

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• Of course, ISIS is a terrible organization that has to be defeated. And, of course, we need a strong military. But just as with every other agency of government, you know what, the military also has got to get rid of waste and fraud and cost overruns.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Military, Agency

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Despair, Overcoming, May

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.133

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• I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wall, Believe, Heart

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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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• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winning, Men, Dragons

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Beautiful, Hero, Mean

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• Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop
  as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied; if we fail, we are
  ridiculed & attacked. Sadly, this is how people are. Unexpected
  grief & suffering may lie ahead of you. But it is precisely when you
  encounter such trying times that you must not be defeated. NEVER GIVE
  UP! NEVER RETREAT!

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Lying, Grief

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• Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.

  William Graham Sumner

  Military, Power, Men

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “War and Other Essays”

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• Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

  Emily Dickinson

  Purple, Victory, Dying

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.24, Modern Library

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• A true champion is not only formed in victory. To be defeated makes you learn.

  Renan Barao

  Mma, Champion, Victory

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• The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.

  Jack Johnson

  Future, Pirate, Age

  Song: The Horizon Has Been Defeated, Album: On And On

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• Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Men, Long

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Army, Needs, Lessons

  "“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 31, 1920.

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• The individual in the framework and in the service of his race, the race in the framework and in the service of God and of the laws of the divinity: those who will understand these things will win even though they are alone. Those who will not understand will be defeated.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Winning, Race, Law

  "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.

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• Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There is no holier spot of groundThan where defeated valor lies,By mourning beauty crowned!

  Henry Timrod

  Lying, Humble, Sleep

  Henry Timrod, “Ode:Sung On The. Occasion Of Decorating The Graves Of The Confederate Dead”

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• If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

  RZA

  Self, Definitions, Defeat

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.89, Penguin

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• The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people.

  Moshe Ya'alon

  People, Consciousness, Made

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• Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Dream, Father

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.65, Bantam

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• One should respect a defeated opponent!

  Alexander Khalifman

  Opponents, Should

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