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defeat

«Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything.»
«Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.»
«Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.»
«If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'»
«Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.»
«But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.»
«He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.»
«How easy it is to defeat people who do not kindle fire for themselves»
Author: African Proverb | Keywords: defeat, kindle, kindling
«Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: bitter, defeat, swallow, swallow up
«defeat the enemies strategy»
Author: Sun Tzu (Author, General) | Keywords: defeat, strategies, strategy