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History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

A true leader is one who accepts defeat in the same way he accepts winning. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons. — Richelle E. Goodrich

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can. — Harold S. Kushner

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. — Dhirubhai Ambani

It takes pride and a tiger's drive to build up the confidence, the ego, the power to defeat an opponent in the ring. It — Muhammad Ali

May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you. — Paulo Coelho

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life. — Morris Gleitzman

To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy. — Sun Tzu

If you keep avoiding the forces that can defeat you, you may never learn your true power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We must take the long view - every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition. — Nathanael West

Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy. — Kevin McCarthy

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it. — Pope Francis

The eminent strategy had won yesterday,
but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow. — Toba Beta

Brute strength is overrated. With the right skills, a does can defeat a lion. — Brittany Comeaux

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other. — Rick Riordan

The children of God can defeat the adversary, for we have fought him before. — Chris Stewart

All you have to do is try. And to me, the worst kind of defeat is not failure per se. It's the decision not to try. — Novak Djokovic

If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

For the first time in my life I was admitting defeat. — Christina Lauren

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people. — Haki R. Madhubuti

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I. — Eric Kandel

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear. — G. Gordon Liddy

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! — Stevie Wonder

Discouragement is the cancer of great things. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration. — Thomas Merton

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner. — Fernando Pessoa

Only the vanquished remember history. — Marshall McLuhan

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man — Joe Calzaghe

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. — Phil Ochs

The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms. — Taya Kyle

A warrior becomes experienced by being defeated; a scholar by making mistakes. Defeat and mistakes we have left in the past, he said. — Elaine Marolakos Edelson

A true champion is one that accepts defeat the same manner he accepts winning". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

A man never suffers in defeat. But a weak man folds under pressure, while a real man takes it on the chin. — Rob G.

It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother. — Ben Robertson

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams.
-From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin — Robert Jordan

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat. — Zora Neale Hurston

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose. — H.L. Mencken

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. — William McKinley

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin. — Pope Francis

I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress. — Newt Gingrich

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war, — Benjamin Netanyahu

The ultra distance forgives injury, fatigue, bad form, and illness. A bear with determination will defeat a dreamy gazelle every time. — Scott Jurek

Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed. — Clive Barker

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. — Winston Churchill

The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength. — Kyuzo Mifune

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. — A.J. Cronin

100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election. — Patience Jonathan

The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat. — Kimberly Derting

The weak can defeat the strong in a case as just as mine. — Sophocles

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat. — Arthur Ashe

I'd rather donate 10% of my earnings to homeless people on the street than to an organization that sells negativity that I'll never defeat. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success. — Martin Seligman

Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it. — Vikrmn

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life. — Arnold Palmer

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat. — C.S. Lewis

The ultimate fighter does not rely on his hands or feet to defeat his opponent, but rather his mind. — M.J. Stoddard

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker. — Criss Jami

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it. — Vernon Howard

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat. — Kevin Keegan

Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer
I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers
How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas. — Lil B

There are many paths to victory; choose the shortest one! There are many paths to defeat; choose the longest one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit — Napoleon Hill

Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer. — Garry Kasparov

If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

The purely defensive is doomed to defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

For him, the game is not to defeat the opponent, but to challenge his own abilities. — Haruki Murakami

You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice. — Joel Osteen

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands. — Alan Keyes

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person. — Israelmore Ayivor

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats. — Paulo Coelho

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. — Karl Liebknecht

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. — Herbert Marcuse

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat. — Kelly Miller

Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn't defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later. — Gena Showalter

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken — Beverley Cross

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love. — Glenn Beck

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid. — Dale Carnegie

The beauty of defeat is that when you fall, you fly. — Lionel Suggs

Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage. — Bill Maher

Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us — Zoran

Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat? — Rosa Parks

Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him. — Robert A. Heinlein

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat. — William Hartston

Establishing the Word of God defeats our spiritual enemies and protects our prosperity. — Sunday Adelaja

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority. — Stefan Heym

The art of victory is learned in defeat. — Simon Bolivar

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire. — Emile De Girardin

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. — James A. Michener

Victory and defeat are found in the same entity — Thabiso Monkoe

Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan. — Wesley L. Duewel

On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self. — Akira Toriyama

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose. — Dennis Miller

Yet there's no one to beat you | No one t' defeat you | 'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad — Bob Dylan

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat. — Anna Wickham