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 | "Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what
makes it permanent." | |
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Marilyn vos Savant
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| "But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not
defeated." | |
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Ernest Hemingway
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| "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true
failure." | |
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George E. Woodberry
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| "Defeat isn?t bitter, if you don?t swallow it." | |
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Unknown
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| "Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it." | |
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Josephus Daniels
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| "Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, But rather a
fresh stimulus." | |
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Robert South
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| "For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He
marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the game." | |
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Grantland Rice
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| "For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He
marks?not that you won or lost? But how you played the game." | |
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Henry Grantland Rice
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| "I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than
triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph
than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail." | |
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Wendell Lewis Wilkie
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| "If you live long enough, you"ll see every victory turn into a
defeat." | |
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Simone de Beauvoir
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| "In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In
Peace: Goodwill." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns
gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "Nice guys finish last." | |
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Leo Durocher
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| "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle
won." | |
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Arthur Wellesley
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| "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down
to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it
takes to win when the match is even" | |
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Muhammad Ali
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| "The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately
defeat him." | |
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Russell Baker
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| "The prudence of the best heads is often defeated By the tenderness
of the best of hearts." | |
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Henry Fielding
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| "The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is
tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster." | |
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Adam Smith
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| "The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary
defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "There are important cases in which the difference between half a
heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat
and a splendid victory." | |
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A. H. K. Boyd
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| "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories." | |
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Michel de Montaigne
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| "Up a tree." | |
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Proverb
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| "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat." | |
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Queen Victoria
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| "What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to
something better." | |
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Wendell Phillips
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| "You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from
defeat." | |
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Christy Mathewson
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