Quotes with defeat

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  • Paul J. Meyer Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Denis Waitley 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
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt 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 much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Francis Quarles 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.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Napoleon He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Bernie Sanders 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
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Allen Klein I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Burning Spear I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Rose Kennedy I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • William Morris I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Lou Holtz I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Arianna Huffington I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Tom Landry I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
    Tom Landry
    American football player and coach (1924 - 2000)
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  • Ann Landers If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ''I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.''
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Zig Ziglar If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Robert Collier In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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