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Defeat Quotes (page 16)

We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time, those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them. By the time we've found them, we already been defeated by adversity. Paulo Coelho
Tis true my garments threadbare are, And sorry poor I seem; But inly I am richer far. Than any poet's dream. For I've a hidden life no one. Can ever hope to see; A sacred sanctuary none. May share with me. Aloof I stand from out the strife, Within my heart a song; By virtue of my inner life. I to myself belong. Against man-ruling I rebel, Yet do not fear defeat, For to my secret citadel. I may retreat. Oh you who have an inner life. Beyond this dismal day. With wars and evil rumours rife, Go... Robert W. Service
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sun Tzu quote: "If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory..."
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. Sun Tzu
...accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated...the only victory lay in the far future long after you were dead... George Orwell
Morris West quote: "History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a..."
History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future Morris West
Beverley Nichols quote: "To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable..."
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. Beverley Nichols
The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I have said, it is only possible to people who have money and guns between themselves and reality. George Orwell
Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation. Theodore Kaczynski
How is it possible to defeat not the authors but the functions of the author, the idea that behind each book there is someone who guarantees a truth in that world of ghosts and inventions by the mere fact of having invested in it his own truth, of having identified himself with that construction of words? Italo Calvino
Now there you have a sample of man’s “reasoning powers,” as he calls them. He observes certain facts. For instance, that in all his life he never sees the day that he can satisfy one woman; also, that no woman ever sees the day that she can’t overwork, and defeat, and put out of commission any ten masculine plants that can be put to bed to her. He puts those strikingly suggestive and luminous facts together, and from them draws this astonishing conclusion: The Creator intended the woman to be... Mark Twain
I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where you don't want me to. Frank O'Hara
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. Katharine Hepburn
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes hold your head high look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger then you. You cannot defeat me Ann Landers
John Piper quote: "Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You..."
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free. John Piper

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