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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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Henry Ward Beecher

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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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George E. Woodberry

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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
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Josephus Daniels

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

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Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
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Greg Lake

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Source Unknown

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The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn't hear the referee.
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H. E. Jansen

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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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Winston Churchill

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

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

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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
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Douglas Macarthur

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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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Maya Angelou

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Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?
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Virgil

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You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
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Paul Brown

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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun