#defeat

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

#being #dead #dead end #defeat #delay

I think television defeats ventriloquism. ↗

— Paul Winchell

#i #i think #television #think #ventriloquism

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#cannot #culture #defeat #enemy #without

There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory. ↗

— Andrew Davidson

#defeat #death

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. ↗

— Henry Miller

#best #beyond #defeat #friends #his

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#because #canada #confederation #culture #decades

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#believe #committed #could #cowardly #defeat

We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#allies #around #bring #british #commit

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#denied #existence #forms #self-defeating #their