#defeat

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#americans #decline #defeat #docility #exhaustion

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#dealt #defeated #england #european #fate

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#defeat #difference #everything #five #make

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

#better #compliment #defeat #extremely #i

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#defeat #education #first #first step #nothing

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#cannot #confident #defeat #deprived #fear

There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomorrow, we are only one country, only one Venezuela. Tomorrow in the country there are many problems that we have to resolve. Problems do not wait. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#defeated #many #only #people #president-elect

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game. ↗

— Pat Riley

#defeat #game #great #his #more

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. ↗

— Arthur Calwell

#defeated #lies #principle #than #win

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#being #defeating #down #get #i