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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Success
Amos Bronson Alcott

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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Defeat
Maya Angelou

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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Goals
Russell (Wayne) Baker

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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Defeat
Henry Ward Beecher

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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Losers and Losing
Henry Ward Beecher

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No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
Discipline
Henry Ward Beecher

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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Pride
Henry Bolingbroke

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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Fear
Napoleon Bonaparte

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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Losers and Losing
Bill Bradley

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

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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
Elections
Patrick Buchanan

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It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Winners and Winning
Arthur Calwell

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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
Reform
Lydia M. Child

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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
Attitude
Winston Churchill

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In War: ResolutionIn Defeat: DefianceIn Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will
Uncategorised
Winston Churchill

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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Defeat
Winston Churchill

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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Losers and Losing
Galeazzo Ciano

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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Failure
Francis Crawford

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

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Fear
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
Victory
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
Prudence
Henry Fielding

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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Victory
Malcolm S. Forbes

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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.
Principles
William Lloyd Garrison

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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Defeat
Ernest Hemingway

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