“The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve. — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
“It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if… — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That… — Anderson Silva Copy Share Image
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was… — Mohammed Omar Copy Share Image
“It is regrettable to spend one's life in a battle that ends with no victory nor defeat, to consume it in another… — Salman Al Odah Copy Share Image
I am asking all Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, to join us in our campaign to defeat the corrupt establishment and give… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most difficult part is training and competing while observing the holy month of Ramadan, which involves fasting. The most rewarding part… — Ibtihaj Muhammad Copy Share Image
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