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 Defeat

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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)
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.   (Michel de Montaigne)
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.   (Ralph W. Sockman)
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.   (Quintilian)
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.   (Sun-tzu)
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.   (Lois McMaster Bujold)
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.   (Wendell Phillips)
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.   (Oprah Winfrey O Magazine What I Know For Sure January 2004)
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take 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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