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• Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

  Galeazzo Ciano

  Topics in Victory

  Tags in Defeat

• Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.

  Andrew Davidson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defeat

• Fight only when you can win; move away when you cannot.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs, Victory

  Tags in Defeat

• Defeat is never a bitter brew until one agrees to swallow it.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs, Victory

  Tags in Defeat

• Occupy the higher ground to exercise control.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs, Victory

  Tags in Defeat

• If your mind is strong, all difficult things will become easy; if your mind is weak, all easy things will become difficult.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs, Victory

  Tags in Defeat

• Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat.

  Donna Lynn Hope

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defeat

• The beauty of defeat is that when you fall, you fly.

  Lionel Suggs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defeat
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  In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Topics in Victory

  Tags in Deserve, Defeat
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  Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  Ralph Ellison

  Topics in Humanity, Life

  Tags in Play, Defeat

• Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

  Robert South

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defeat, Fresh
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  We learn little from victory, much from defeat.

  Topics in Japanese Proverbs, Victory

  Tags in Defeat, Learn

• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in People, World, Thing, Defeat

• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Fear, Wisdom

  Tags in Enjoy, Better, Things, Poor, Far, Suffer, Win, Live, Defeat

• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

  Napoleon Hill

  Topics in Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Tags in Rebuild, Defeat
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  We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Encounter, Defeat

• If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

  Zig Ziglar

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Haven, Defeat

• We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

  Denis Kearney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defeat

• War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

  Bruce Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Defeat

• I learned this about coaching: You don’t have to explain victory and you can’t explain defeat.

  Darrell Royal

  Topics in Victory

  Tags in Defeat