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I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose. -- Lena Headey
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources. -- Indira Gandhi
I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose." -- Lena Headey
Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects. -- Orison Swett Marden
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme- When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time? -- Rudyard Kipling
I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?Well,necessary or not, they happen.When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes.The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !" -- Paulo Coelho
Some defeats are only installments to victory. -- Jacob Riis
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. -- Michel de Montaigne
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. -- Maya Angelou
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats. -- Paulo Coelho
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. -- Robert Trout
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. -- Richard M. Nixon
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. -- Bertolt Brecht
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
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. -- Henry Steele Commager
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
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. -- Henry Steele Commager
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. -- Robert E. Lee
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. -- Plato
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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
I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up. -- Robin Sharma
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. -- Bjorn Borg
Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day. -- Sam Donaldson
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear. -- Jonathan Sacks
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. -- Henry Rollins
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. -- Henry Miller
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it. -- Erik Erikson
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. -- Maya Angelou
Big defeats make us learn." -- Danilo Di Luca
Good music always defeats bad luck." -- Jack Vance
A word too much always defeats its purpose." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats" -- Napoleon Hill
You are the best only till someone defeats you." -- Sipendr
How women defeat one another; how need defeats women." -- Robin Oliveira
I am a series of small victories and large defeats." -- Charles Bukowski
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." -- Maya Angelou
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed." -- Wally Lamb
Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it." -- Bruce Sterling
But for life's little defeats and indignities, I would be happy, content and completely average." -- Mark Rude
The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic." -- Stephen King
You will face many defeats in your life, but never allow yourself to be defeated." -- Maya Angelou
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats." -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt." -- Henry Bolingbroke
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within." -- Dawson Trotman
The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind." -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy." -- Matt Taibbi
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats." -- Robert Trout
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories." -- Richard M. Nixon
We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face." -- Moshe Sharett
Your defeats in life's battlefieldWill soon be ending,Because your mind is no longer indifferent To your heart's spontaneous enthusiasm." -- Sri Chinmoy
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.I'd rather write about laughing than crying,For laughter makes men human, and courageous." -- Francois Rabelais
Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself." -- Robert G. Ingersoll
A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone." -- Julien Gracq
Good defeats evil most of the times, but sometimes in order to defeat the devil you must first become his disciple" -- Gaiven Clairmont
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow." -- Amin Maalouf
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me." -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion." -- Henry Steele Commager
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
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
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic." -- Walter Kaufmann
The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats." -- Haruki Murakami
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters." -- Robert E. Lee
Saga of Tristan and Danika. The battles and the victories. The defeats and the triumphs. The tragedies and the trials. Somewhere in the middle, I had him tearing up," -- R.K. Lilley
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search." -- Rick Riordan
Light is supposed to be reasuring. You learn that when you're very young. It defeats the bad things creeping around in your room.Every Parent knows the magic gesture chases the monesters away." -- Mike A. Lancaster
Waitress: "And to drink?"Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As your ice is no doubt made from tap water, which rather defeats the purpose of spring water." -- Eoin Colfer
You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High.But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up." -- Robin Sharma
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories." -- Bjorn Borg
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it." -- Aleister Crowley
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" -- Paolo Coehlo
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
But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as though the minded body defeats every attempt to select out only the mind part as deserving sole responsibility for the success." -- Alice Koller
Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day." -- Sam Donaldson
I sit heredrunk now.I am a series ofsmall victoriesand large defeatsand I am asamazedas any otherthatI have gottenfrom there toherewithout committing murderor beingmurdered;withouthaving ended up in themadhouse.as I drink aloneagain tonightmy soul despite all the pastagonythanks all the godswho were nottherefor methen." -- Charles Bukowski
Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else." -- Derek Landy
My soul needed a place it could live. I longed for my defeats to be infrequent visitations, not my victories. Beloved, our personalized lands of earthly promise are places we're invited by God to dwell in Christ. It's high time we stopped dropping in and started taking up residency." -- Beth Moore
Our progenitors, our educational systems, the land, the media, the way have deluded and misled the masses: they have been defeated by the aridity of the actual dream. they were unaware that achievement or victory or luck or whatever the hell you want to call it must have its defeats." -- Charles Bukowski
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it." -- Erik Erikson
The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems." -- Tony Blair
I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others." -- Jim Cole
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out..." -- Charles Dickens
I do not have it in for relativism. In many respects I find it a fascinating, even attractive, alternative. It engenders epistemological humility, defeats an arrogant pomposity in belief, even promotes a sort of democratic ideal in matters of knowledge. Perhaps its most comforting feature is that it requires no hard work at all in the matter of justifying beliefs." -- David L. Wolfe
If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It's a good thing to learn more about nature in order to share this knowledge with children; it's even better if the adult and child learn about nature together. And it's a lot more fun." -- Richard Louv
Isn't this your life? That ancient kissstill burning out your eyes? Isn't this defeatso accurate, the church bell simply seemsa pure announcement: ring and no one comes?Don't empty houses ring? Are magnesiumand scorn sufficient to support a town,not just Philipsburg, but townsof towering blondes, good jazz and boozethe world will never let you haveuntil the town you came from dies inside?" -- Richard Hugo
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party." -- Hannah Arendt
Oh ... why not?' he smiledThis valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England... it is here that I have experienced some of my greatest successes - and several notable defeats. Defeat, you know, is not such a bad thing, if there's not too much of it... it makes for humility, and humility makes for caution, therefore for safety.' ("Trace")" -- Jerome Bixby
But love doesn't always generate hope. Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much love or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water--the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it." -- Kevin Brockmeier
I think television defeats ventriloquism. -- Paul Winchell
Trust always defeats every rebellion -- Sunday Adelaja
Will power defeats all powers -- Aftab Alam
Good music always defeats bad luck. -- Jack Vance
Good music always defeats bad luck -- Jack Vance
Nature, left to itself, defeats nature. -- Georgia Harkness
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. -- Matt Taibbi
Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us -- Zoran
The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself! -- Franz Stampfl
Some defeats are only installments to victory. -- Jacob Riis
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself. -- Woodrow Wilson
Censorship defeats the right to self determination. -- Billy Forbes
A word too much always defeats its purpose. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats -- Napoleon Hill
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats. -- Che Guevara
There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. -- Og Mandino
If your ethical model defeats you, change the model. -- D.B.C. Pierre
I am a series of small victories and large defeats. -- Charles Bukowski
For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats. -- George Orwell
What do you do when something you work on defeats you? -- Nick Stone
But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. -- Wally Lamb
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. -- Elvis Costello
I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism. -- Orhan Pamuk
At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis! -- Walter Smith

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