Defeated Quotes - Page 5

• I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Sorry, Party, Years

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• But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 16, 2010

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• The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Numbers, Enemy, Islam

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Weapons, Sophisticated, Superpower

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

  Cao Cao

  Hands, Aggravation, Enemy

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• It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

  C. L. R. James

  War, Germany, Has Beens

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• The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Glory

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• Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Men, Rehabilitation, Succeed

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.

  Epictetus

  Wine, Exercise, Dust

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• The poet is he who fights on the passionate
  Side and whoever loses he wins; when he
  Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.

  Allen Tate

  War, Fighting, Winning

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.70, Macmillan

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• He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Enemy, Wise Man Once Said

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• What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Victory, Kind, Left

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• The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Moving, Mean, Beautiful Life

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• He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

  Tom Robbins

  Faces, Executioners, Jokes

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.153, Bantam

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• Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?

  J. K. Rowling

  Harry Potter

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• Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Strong, Flower

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• The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real or substantial. It was calculated to intensify and compound the adverse psychological effects of the war by exploiting the backward outlook of large sections of Arab society and their role in the community. The intention was to achieve adverse psychological effects by saying to Arabs that they were defeated, in 1967, by women.

  Saddam Hussein

  Military, Real, War

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• He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated

  Emmitt Smith

  Sports, Winning, Competition

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• Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam.

  Adolf Hitler

  Greatness, Europe, Two

  "The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945". Book by Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, London: Cassell, (February 4, 1945), 1961.

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• Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Winning

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Perseverance, Ambition, Defeat

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• One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one is a weakling forever. Meeting a challenge, though one may be defeated, gives strength, character, and a certain assurance that regardless of outcome, one will survive or go down fighting.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Life, Running, Character

  "Reflections from the North Country".

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• When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, "I want you to emerge stronger from this." My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Patriotic, Cities

  "9/11 was 'worst day' and 'the best day'" by Rudy Giuliani, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 7, 2011.

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• I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Love Life, Thoughtful

  "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. November 21, 1973.

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