Quotes with defeat

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  • Thomas Jefferson Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • John F. Kennedy Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
    Press conferentie, 21-04-1961 (na de Bay of Pigs)
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Malcolm Forbes Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Queen Victoria We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Kofi Annan 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.
    Faceboek (2017)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Abdul Kalam We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Cecil Day Lewis 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.
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  • Wendell Phillips What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Pat Riley When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Henry Miller When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bill Kristol While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed - and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • Paul Brown You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
    Paul Brown
    American football coach and executive (1908 - )
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  • Pat Riley You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Les Brown You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Richard Nixon You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
    Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941)
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Winston Churchill In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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