#defeat

In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable. ↗

— Edward Marsh

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Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. ↗

— James A. Michener

#confuse #defeat #dreams #life #permanent

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#art #artist #becoming #defeats #end

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat. ↗

— Kelly Miller

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The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#contemporary #defeat #form #greatest #identity

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#discard #durable #enough #generates #ideology

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#becoming #beings #between #capable #constituted

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ↗

— Anais Nin

#defeat #endure #known #life #lose