#defeat

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

— Wendell Phillips

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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. ↗

— Plato

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The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan. ↗

— Michael Mullen

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I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated. ↗

— Denis Thatcher

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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

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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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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

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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. ↗

— George Grosz

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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

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