#defeat

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#coaching #defeat #explain #i #learned

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ↗

— Sallust

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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. ↗

— Sallust

#brave #coward #defeat #even #his

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#condition #defeated #giving #giving up #makes

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#deal #defeated #esquire #his #james

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. ↗

— Renata Adler

#erases #experience #generation #history #own

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#be strong #brave #build #defeat #enough

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#bother #cancer #courageous #defeated #did

In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable. ↗

— Edward Marsh

#unbearable #unbeatable #victory

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

— William Moulton Marston

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