Quotes with defeat

  • In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
  • We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
  • Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
  • We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.
  • Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
  • The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
  • There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
  • Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
  • Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
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  • George Lois Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.
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  • Carl Sandburg Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale 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
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Sun Tzu Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Lydia M. Child A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • George Eliot Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bobby Seale Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Cass Sunstein Concerned about re-election, interest-group reactions, the media, or fundraising, many legislators have found it in their interest to refuse to cooperate with members of the opposing party - or to treat them as enemies in some kind of war, in which the whole point is to defeat and humiliate them. But the American people have been the real losers.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Richard Nixon Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Pat Buchanan Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Edward Woodberry Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Bill Musselman Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.
    Bill Musselman
    American basketball coach (1940 - 2000)
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  • Robert South Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • John F. Kennedy Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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