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Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.
Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.
It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
The strategy of any party would be to see how best it can defeat the party in power.
Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.
We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
If you ask any manager after a defeat, you want to be as far away from it as you can.
But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.
The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well.
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
In the 46-48 kg. category, I know every boxer, and I defeat them whenever I fight them.
I can accept defeat, but I love to win and be competitive. It is my job, and I love it.
I think coaches should get the same amount of credit in victory that they get in defeat.
Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
The Republicans know very well how to lose, and they know how to be very civil in defeat.
After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover.
When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves.
[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.
We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.
Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.
The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
If I don't believe I'm the guy that's going to help defeat Cuomo, then I won't go forward.
No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.
If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.
I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.
In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.
What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?
We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.