Best Defeat Proverbs
1550 Defeat quotes by 1038 unique authors
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Defeat the enemies strategy.
— Sun Tzu
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I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting…
— James Madison
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This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
— Lech Walesa
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by…
— Umberto Eco
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing…
— Richard M. Nixon
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We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that…
— John F. Kennedy
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When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the…
— Charles Eisenstein
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It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.
— Kim Gandy
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True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it…
— Fielding H. Yost
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I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.
— Henry Cavill
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Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.
— Nick Jonas
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We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes…
— Sidney Poitier
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If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.
— Will Smith
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I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
— Gary Lineker
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I've always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can't really stay in the same…
— Derek Luke
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Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable…
— Peter Sellers
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Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.
— Winston Churchill
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Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat
— Kim Hyun-joong
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In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad
— Pamela Geller
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I don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.
— Jay E. Adams
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In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis.…
— Unknown Author
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I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy…
— Patrick Cleburne
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Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
— Unknown Author
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The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.
— Gichin Funakoshi
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