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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Bill Bradley
Experience
Own
Defeat
Taste
Richness
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway
War
Defeat
Once
Worse
Must
One Thing
Only
Only One Thing
Won
Than
Any
Happen
Ever
Thing
Things
Brings
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Defeat
Clamor
Ourselves
Triumph
Crowded
Street
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Kin Hubbard
Failure
Own
Defeat
Our
Weakness
Purpose
Except
Longer
Within
Insurmountable
Trying
Really
Inherent
Barrier
Save
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Mao Zedong
Army
Culture
Enemy
Defeat
Without
Cannot
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
Martin Seligman
Success
Face
Defeat
Ability
Combination
Leads
Talent
Going
Reasonable
Keep
Keep Going
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer
Problems
Giving
Defeat
Every
Recognition
Enter
Possibility
Weaknesses
Mental
Instead
Concentrate
Powers
Without
Your
Activity
Strengths
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust
Nature
Law
Coward
Victory
Reputation
Human Nature
Defeat
His
Prowess
Brave
May
Human
While
Boast
Even
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Tony Blair
Understanding
Defeat
Meeting
Minds
Must
No Point
Point
Terror
Just
Choice
Defeated
I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.
Burning Spear
Me
Yourself
Speak
Fear
Doubt
Defeat
Tries
About
Individual
No-One
Feel
Like
Himself
Within
Africa
Form
Wherein
Ashamed
Themselves
Roots
Should
Who
Originate
Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.
Ellen Key
Fight
Cause
Victory
Heroes
Made
Power
Help Others
Defeat
Others
Those
Must
Fact
Wrong
Glory
Understand
Greatest
Does
Prove
Proves
Nor
Impressed
Children
Help
Who
Fought
Right
Thing
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Galeazzo Ciano
Victory
Defeat
Fathers
Hundred
Orphan
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
George Soros
Organization
Power
Nation
Defeat
Earth
Ourselves
Powerful
Powerful Nation
Quagmire
Most
Most Powerful
Terrorist
Caught
Getting
Us
External
Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.
Joyce Meyer
You
Fear
Sometimes
Defeat
Must
Something
Through
Your
Suffer
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Orson Scott Card
Love
Enemy
Defeat
Enough
Also
Well
Him
Well Enough
Understand
Truly
Very
Then
Moment
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
Stanley Hauerwas
God
Victory
Defeat
Assume
Our
John
Cross
Gospel
Gospels
Makes
Explicit
There are people who try to judge. I'm cool with that. I don't care what nobody say - the only thing that can defeat hate is love.
Young M.A
Love
Hate
People
Judge
Try
Care
Defeat
Say
Only
Nobody
dont Care
The Only Thing
Who
Cool
Thing
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Beverley Nichols
Overcome
Defeat
Fragrance
Delectable
Form
Flowers
I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.
Bronte Campbell
Good
Humble
Victory
Be Humble
Defeat
Good Thing
Well
Learnt
Very
Lessons
Thing
Early
Some of my memories will never return. They are lost - along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay.
Carrie Fisher
Memories
Will
Feeling
Lost
Pay
Defeat
Tremendous
Crippling
Hopelessness
Some
Price
Never
Along
Return
The way to defeat international terrorism is through international cooperation based on international law, clear intelligence, and a measured and appropriate military response.
Charles Kennedy
Terrorism
Intelligence
Law
Military
Defeat
Appropriate
Way
Response
Through
Clear
Measured
International
International Cooperation
International Law
Cooperation
International Terrorism
Based
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Francis Marion Crawford
Defeat
Nine-Tenths
Itself
Expect
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy
Death
Myself
History
Welcome
Fear
Defeat
Having
Never
Learned
Were
Taught
Afraid
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot
Failure
Defeat
Worse
Than
Victories
Many
I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.
George H. W. Bush
You
Happy
Defeat
Think
Hard
Things
A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
Gerald R. Ford
Victory
Defeat
President
Aim
States
Total
All-Out
Propaganda
Attack
Massive
Him
Waging
Campaign
Against
Themselves
Coalition
Groups
United
United States
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