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~ Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. ~

~ It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ~

Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

~ If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ 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

~ Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ~

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Sun-tzu

~ Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem -- he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills ~

William Arthur Ward

~ Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. ~

Malcolm S. Forbes

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

George E. Woodberry

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

Josephus Daniels

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

Ralph W Sockman

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

Wendell Phillips

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

Paul Brown

~ Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. ~

Denis Waitley

~ Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to ccept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ~

Henry Miller

~ Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked 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

~ Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ~

Henry Miller

~ Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ~

Ralph Ellison

~ There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. ~

Max Eastman

~ So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men, ~

Charlton Heston

~ Defeat the Defeat before the Defeat Defeat's you. ~

Tamil proverb

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

Russell Baker

~ Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. ~

Will Rogers

~ Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ The things you fear are undefeatable, not by there nature, but by your approach ~

Jewel Kiltcher

~ Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up. ~

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Denis Waitley

~ If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning isn't very exciting. ~

Dick Vermeil

~ There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. ~

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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