A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
~Sallust

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As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.
~Morihei Ueshiba

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Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
~Ralph W. Sockman

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Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
~John Abizaid

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

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

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
~Robert South

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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
~Lois McMaster Bujold

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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.
~Theodore Roosevelt

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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
~William Morris

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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
~George Carlin

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I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.
~Jeane Kirkpatrick

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In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.
~Edward Marsh

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The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.
~Peter Pace

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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
~Russell Baker

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
~Michel de Montaigne

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There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
~Tony Blair

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There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
~Cesar Chavez

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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
~Sun-tzu

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

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What it is controlled cool, in a way. Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
~Arthur Ashe

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What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.
~Henry Waxman

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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
~Napoleon Hill

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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
~Quintilian

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

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