#defeat

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ↗

— George Edward Woodberry

#defeat #failure #failures #tried #true

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

The beauty of defeat is that when you fall, you fly. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#live-in-the-moment #triumph #beauty

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#finals #first #henry #i #kelly

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#defeated #educated #refusal #some

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#brings #defeat #ever #happen #must

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore. ↗

— John Bolton

#anymore #defeat #like #people #talk

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#grope #happy #hard #i #i think

We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#defeat