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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

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Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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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

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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Henry Ward Beecher

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For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

William Wordsworth

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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

Robert Browning

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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Lou Holtz

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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

Henry Ward Beecher

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My lowest days as a Christian -- and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

Winston Churchill

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell

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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

Douglas MacArthur

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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Maya Angelou

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When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?

Virgil

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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

My lowest days as a Christian -- and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?