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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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Ernest Hemingway

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Man is not made for defeat.
Potential
Ernest Hemingway

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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Opportunity
Napoleon Hill

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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Courage
Robert Green Ingersoll

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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
Victory
Thomas Jefferson

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Theres an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.
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John F. Kennedy

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I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Defeat
Tom Landry

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Adversity
Thomas E. Lawrence

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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Victory
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
Anger
Samurai Maxim

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Defeat
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
Defeat
Jawaharlal Nehru

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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
Perseverance
Richard M. Nixon

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Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
Defeat
Norman Vincent Peale

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Failure
Wendell Phillips

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
Life and Living
Don Piatt

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.
Failure
Jacob Riis

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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
Competition
Pat Riley

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
Life and Living
Rainer Maria Rilke

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Politicians and Politics
Will Rogers

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Adversity
Rosalind Russell

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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Victory
Jean-Paul Sartre

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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Words
Arthur Schopenhauer

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The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
Progress
Joseph R. Sizoo

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A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.
Defeat
Jan Christian Smuts

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun