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Defeat

«Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.»
Author: Edwin Markham (Poet) | About: Defeat, Glory, Soul, Victory | Keywords: shake
«Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.»
«Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.»
Author: Josephus Daniels | About: Defeat | Keywords: admits
«Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.»
«Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus»
Author: Robert South | About: Defeat | Keywords: discouragement, stimuli, stimulus
«But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.»
«If you can accept losing, you can't win.»
Author: Vince Lombardi (Coach) | About: Defeat, Victory | Keywords: losing
«I really thought we'd win that»
Author: Adolf Hitler (Chancellor) | About: Defeat, War
«Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Defeat
«Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.»

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