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Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine — Napoleon Hill
I think I really believed my childish thoughts back then. Using the determination of the poor, the childish thought that I can do it if… — Kim Young-kwang
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably… — Saul Bellow
Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. — Franco Harris
It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important… — Stewart Baker
To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. — Neal Ascherson
A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of… — Aeschines
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever… — Eugenie Scott
The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but… — Sun Tzu
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure… — Sun Tzu
Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. — Matt Taibbi
Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up. — George A. Sheehan
Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word. — Margaret Thatcher
The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us… — Warren W. Wiersbe
The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor… — William J. H. Boetcker
I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated. — Woodrow Wilson
A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you. — Marv Levy
The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost. — Kobo Abe
It is defeat which educates us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible. — Henry Ward Beecher
My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House. — Charles Caleb Colton
‎For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life… — Janet Morris
When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this… — Simone Weil
If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them. — Jack Ma

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