To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.


Henry Louis Mencken

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It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
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Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?
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There is no defeat except for those who give up.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.
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Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,...
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...and even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet...' Still D.R.E.
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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat
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It's going to be impossible to defeat him unless he turns out to be an ax murderer and there's been ...
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus
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After Braddock's Defeat: Terror in the Valley.
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The defeat of the combined French and Spanish fleets lifted the very real threat of an invasion of B...
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[Levy said he and Suozzi had sought to bring a wider variety of perspectives onto the board. Despite...
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Many a good man I have seen go under.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you...
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Quitting for the life time is true failure.
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What you need to think about it is, 'How do I defeat the guy who is assigned to block me?' That's wh...
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Defeat - For every winner there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them.
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With the Aussies needing only to avoid defeat in the final two matches to retain the Ashes, punters ...
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We didn't deserve this defeat. I think we have played at the same level as Barcelona. We've had good...
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The 1-0 defeat is not a bad result. We are even delighted with it, because it could have been worse.
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With the Aussies needing only to avoid defeat in the final two matches to retain the Ashes, punters ...
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Everyone is good up there. Mike is good enough to defeat anyone at this level. He's good enough to c...
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Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it
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It's now about how we react to the defeat in our cup-tie on Saturday and then the three or four leag...
CHARLIE CHRISTIE
First place is what I've been dreaming about since I was in second grade. I couldn't take another (f...
DEXTER LARIMORE
I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.
RUSSELL CROWE
It was a very hard defeat to swallow.
CHARLES RUSH
We are 100 percent sure that we're going to defeat them -- if it comes to an election.
DARRELL JEFFERSON
It's a severe defeat for the prosecution.
DAVID MEJIA
Kim talked about them having a target on their back, and when you defeat the No. 4 team in the count...
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We think we can defeat the bill.
JASMINE HARRIS
The first question is (having) enough votes to win defeat. It's also important that the filibuster r...
MARCIA GREENBERGER
I don't have any explanation for this defeat. I'm stunned, and I don't know what to say.
LAURENT FOURNIER
This defeat hurts because of the way it happened and because it broke our record of victories.
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This ruling turns out to be a defeat for consumers. There are millions of dollars in question. We do...
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You can only surprise teams when you feel you are not supposed to or cannot defeat teams. And we exp...
MIKE SWEITZER
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
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Accepting defeat is not wisdom.
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Defeat is always self-chosen.
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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
ROSALIND RUSSELL
When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
ROSALIND RUSSELL
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
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Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made sma...
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The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they h...
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made s...
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Man is not made for defeat.
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Man is not made for defeat
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Defeat is a temporal down fall.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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I have yet to meet (a socialist) who was not as gullible as a Mississippi darkey - nay, as a Mississ...
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of peop...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save w...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
What ass first let lose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries fo...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is unc...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what m...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Do not overestimate the decency of the human race
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her hea...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and t...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless proce...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many in...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventur...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form o...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, hone...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and great...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN