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Defeat Quotes
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. (Quote by - Edwin Markham)
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. (Quote by - Sun-tzu)
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)
Far better it is 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 the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? (Quote by - Vergil)
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 good book. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. (Quote by - Paul Brown)
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves. (Quote by - Roy Cohn)
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. (Quote by - Josephus Daniels)
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. (Quote by - George E. Woodberry)
Many a good man I have seen go under. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)