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defeats

«Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.»
«Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.»
Author: Don Piatt | Keywords: defeats
«Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.»
Author: Henry Bolingbroke (Politician) | Keywords: defeats
«Some defeats are only installments to victory.»
«Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find ''tomorrow'' on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, ''If I had my life to live over again. ''Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.»
«Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.»
«The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.»
«Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats ...»
«There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.»
«The knowledgeable,in order to attain divinity, defeats all the wicked competitors.»
Author: Sam Veda | Keywords: competitors, defeats

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