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“It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.”
Thomas Paine
“Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.”
Pope John Paul II
“War is a defeat for humanity.”
Pope John Paul II
“We are never defeated unless we give up on God.”
Ronald Reagan
“When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Far better is it 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 a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.”
Henry Rollins
“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.”
Bill Cosby
“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.”
Charles Stanley
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”
Marcus Garvey
“We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”
Abdul Kalam
“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”
George Eliot
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”
Richard Nixon
