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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. -- Robert South
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. -- Bernard Williams
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George Edward Woodberry
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Defeat creates orphaned thoughts. -- Madeleine Blais
Defeat is always momentary. -- Peter Jackson
Defeat the enemies strategy. -- Sun Tzu
Defeat held no honor. -- Johanna Lindsey
Defeat serves to enlighten us. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Defeat may be victory in disguise. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Defeat is not worth thinking about. -- Alan Shearer
Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional. -- Roger Crawford
Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory. -- Frederick William Robertson
Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it. -- Grenville Kleiser
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. -- Helen Keller
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory. -- Pat Buchanan
Defeat is not an option. Period. The End. -- Charlie Sheen
Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. -- Richard M. Nixon
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost. -- Kobo Abe
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it -- Josephus Daniels
Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word. -- Margaret Thatcher
Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again. -- Nick Vujicic
Defeat is only a defeat when we don't learn anything. -- Renan Barao
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat. -- Bill Musselman
Defeat the warriors of patience and time with Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane -- D. J. MacHale
People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within. -- Banana Yoshimoto
In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnaminity In Peace: Good Will. -- Winston Churchill
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind. -- Bruce Lee
Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear. -- G. Gordon Liddy
Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage. -- Winston Churchill
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus -- Robert Southey
Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith. -- Paulo Coelho
In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnaminity In Peace: Good Will. -- Winston Churchill
Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting. -- Shirley Chisholm
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone -- Abdul Kalam
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out -- Edwin Markham
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. -- Edwin Markham
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice. -- Paulo Coelho
Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning. -- Paulo Coelho
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. -- Bruce Lee
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. -- Malcolm Forbes
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat. -- Rose Kennedy
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. -- Zig Ziglar
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. -- William McKinley
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. -- John F. Kennedy
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. -- Norman Vincent Peale
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. -- Maya Angelou
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. -- Napoleon Hill
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. -- Napoleon Hill
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. -- Richard M. Nixon
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. -- Wendell Phillips
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. -- Simone de Beauvoir
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. -- Ernest Hemingway
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. -- Sun Tzu
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. -- Anais Nin
I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me -- Jay-Z
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. -- Richard M. Nixon
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. -- George Carlin
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. -- Sun Tzu
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. -- B. C. Forbes
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
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. -- Kin Hubbard
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. -- Malcolm X
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. -- Sun Tzu
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. -- Paulo Coelho
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. -- Kim Il-sung
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. -- Denis Waitley
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
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. -- Albert Camus
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. -- Maya Angelou
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. -- Douglas MacArthur
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on. -- Bernie Sanders
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what. -- Steven Pressfield
I really thought we'd win that -- Adolf Hitler
Victory and defeat are each of the same price -- Thomas Jefferson
There could be no honor in sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat -- T. E. Lawrence
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom -- Bertolt Brecht
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat? -- Rosa Parks
We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside. -- Joel Osteen
A wrong motive involves defeat. -- Mary Baker Eddy
You defeat defeatism with confidence. -- Vince Lombardi
Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness. -- Mason Cooley
Impatience for victory guarantees defeat -- Louis XIV
The greatest victory is defeat. -- Henrik Ibsen
Accepting defeat is not wisdom. -- T.K. Kiser
It is defeat which educates us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's music in everything, even defeat -- Charles Bukowski
Do not speak defeat, speak victory. -- Joel Osteen
God will defeat the great infidels. -- Mohammed Omar
In ourselves are triumph and defeat. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
War is a defeat for humanity. -- Pope John Paul II
Man is not made for defeat. -- Ernest Hemingway
In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable -- Winston Churchill
Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat. -- Woody Hayes
Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers. -- Jeff Greenfield
To overextend yourself is to invite defeat. -- G. William Domhoff
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't think any professional accepts defeat. -- Mariano Rivera
Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs. -- Victor Cruz
Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat! -- Martin Firrell
Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat. -- Newt Gingrich
South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon. -- William Colby
Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat. -- Jeanne Robertson
We don't defeat evil by becoming evil. -- Nick Clooney
A giver will never suffer a defeat. -- Sunday Adelaja

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