Defeat quotes
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"We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat."
"It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories."
"Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat."
"I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into."
"The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists."
"The purely defensive is doomed to defeat."
"Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word."
"Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it."
"Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated."
"The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan."
"Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you."
"Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy."
"In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it."
"Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us."
"Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat."
"One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings."
"Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice."
"Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself."
"The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom."
"We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead."
