Defeat

(302 votes)   Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(279 votes)   The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(108 votes)   Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George E. Woodberry
1855-1930, American Literary Critic

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(86 votes)   When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

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(84 votes)   Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Richard M. Nixon
1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA

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(81 votes)   Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

Jawaharlal Nehru
1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman

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(78 votes)   My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

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(72 votes)   Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

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(72 votes)   Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

James A. Garfield
1831-1881, Twentieth President of the USA

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(71 votes)   For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(64 votes)   There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(61 votes)   Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(58 votes)   There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory.

A. H. K. Boyd

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(57 votes)   It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(50 votes)   Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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