Quotes 61 till 80 of 101.
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Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.
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The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
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The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
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The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
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The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
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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.
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
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Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
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