#defeat

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

#defeats #going #great #great man #his

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. ↗

— Wilma Rudolph

#again #champion #crushing #defeat #go

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#may #never #our #personally #principles

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. ↗

— Oskar Schindler

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A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#aim #all-out #attack #campaign #coalition

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. ↗

— George Soros

#defeat #earth #external #getting #most

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#doubt #nation #no doubt #other #our

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated. ↗

— Albert Meltzer

#hope #inevitably #last #optimism

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated. ↗

— Paul Williams

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But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ↗