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“It was good to see an athlete that emotional in the aftermath of defeat, to show that losing isn't good enough. Fighting hard and trying your best isn't good enough. It showed that the only thing good enough in his eyes was winning. It caused a tremendous amount of emotion from him when he didn't achieve that.”

Trying Enough Eye Fighting Winning Emotion Achieve Emotional Losing Defeat Athlete Good Enough

Author:Dan Goossen

“I never been a fighter that goes in thinking of defeat. I always go in thinking about winning. I prepare myself to win every time I step in the ring and to give the fans what they want. The results, sometimes don't matter to me. But as long as the fans are entertained with a good fight and enjoy watching me fight, that's all I can do. Just doing the best I can and have the results be what they are.”

Thinking Giving Long Sometimes Fighting Winning Enjoy Defeat Rings Fighter Good Fight

Author:Orlando Salido

“I know that some people believe Winston Churchill, magnanimity in victory. I've always believed magnanimity in defeat and then sneak up on 'em when they're not looking when you fire back. That's what I've always - magnanimity.”

People Believe Victory Defeat Always Believe Sneak Magnanimity

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Trump has a pretty remarkable ability, going back to when he was in business, to reframe defeats as wins. So he had four business bankruptcies and he found a way to say that those are actually wins for him.”

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Author:Tamara Keith

“I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.”

Sometimes Today Film Defeat I Have Learned Rejected

Author:Werner Herzog

“We know from this book entitled... What is it? Surrendered? Succumbed? I can never remember the title perform. And we learn from this book that 24 hours after the election, the Hillary Clinton campaign decided to blame their defeat on the Russians colluding with Trump to affect the outcome of the election. And that allegation ends up being taken so seriously by so many supposedly rational people that now even so-called Republicans are talking about impeaching Donald Trump.”

People Book Remember Hours Taken Republican Election Blame Clinton Defeat Rational

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Even though Donald Trump has won, even though Hillary Clinton has been vanquished, even though the left has suffered defeat after defeat after defeat, the Drive-By Media is still there, and they're still acting as they always do. They are setting the agenda. They are setting the narrative, establishing it, and they are determining what everybody talks about.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think the attitude needs to be: We need to defeat Liberals, defeat them, defeat them. Not accommodate them. Not try to persuade them. If they come along of their own volition, fine. We accept them. But they are the epitome of bigotry and prejudice.”

Thinking Trying Attitude Accepting Prejudice Defeat Bigotry

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Our priority in Syria, really hasn't changed. I think the President Donald Trump has been quite clear. First and foremost, we must defeat ISIS.”

Thinking President Changed Defeat Priorities Syria

Author:Rex W. Tillerson

“It's important that we keep our priorities straight. And we believe that the first priority is the defeat of ISIS. That by defeating ISIS and removing their caliphate from their control, we've now eliminated at least or minimized a particular threat not just to the United States, but to the whole stability in the region.”

Believe Important Threat Defeat Priorities Stability

Author:Rex W. Tillerson

“So, right now we have got to defeat Trump, we have to elect Hillary Clinton. We have to elect progressive candidates in the house, and in the senate, and school boards, and city councils. And most importantly, we have got to continue the fight for an agenda to create a government that works for all of us, and not just the people on top. And that's the mission that I will be undertaking.”

People School Fighting House Clinton Defeat Progressive

Author:Bernie Sanders

“We see and realise that the political situation in the United States is influenced by those who have lost the elections but refuse to accept their defeat, and who continue to use the anti-Russia card and various allegations most actively in the political infighting. This is why we are in no hurry, we are ready to wait, yet we strongly hope that Russian-US relations will become normal again sometime in the future.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.”

Men Goal Objects Defeat Inanimate Objects

Author:Russell Baker

“Conservatives believe that we need to defeat radical Islam not because we want war but because ISIS and other radical Islamist are enemies of peace and that's why we need a president, who in which under whom the best intelligence agencies in the world will find terrorists and the best military in the world will destroy them. And if we capture them alive, a president that will bring them to the United States. A president that will grant them a court-appointed lawyer, a president that will send these terrorists where they belong, to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“This is my number one priority. I've got a lot of things on my plate. But my top priority is to defeat ISIL and to eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism that's been taking place around the world. Groups like ISIL can't destroy us. They can't defeat us. They don't produce anything. They're not an existential threat to us. It is very important for us to not respond with fear.”

World Important Threat Defeat Terrorism Priorities Existential

Author:Barack Obama

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.”

Knows Wisdom Winning Moral Emotional Defeat Limitation Revolutionary Invites Riot Participants Futility Reactionaries Catharsis Rioting

Book:The Trumpet of Conscience

Source: The Trumpet of Conscience

“Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he had a mandate. He snuck into the presidency with the aid of political cronies, his father's having appointed members of the Supreme Court, his brother governor of Florida. And then he takes total control. And this is a president who seems to react to everything with force. Now we've had two wars. We've killed a lot of people. For anybody who is interested in not being a warlike nation anymore, and becoming a nation respected in the world, it becomes important to defeat Bush.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“"It is finished" means that Jesus had accomplished all that God's mission had sent him to do. It did not merely mean that his life was over like, "I'm finished". It was a statement of achievement of purpose - God's purpose to deal with sin and guilt, to defeat all the powers of evil, to bring about the reconciliation of enemies, to defeat death itself, and to accomplish the reconciliation and liberation of the whole creation.”

Mean Purpose Evil Jesus Sin Enemy Creation Achievement Guilt Defeat Accomplish Liberation Accomplished Reconciliation

Author:Christopher J. H. Wright

“One lesson is to not to play desperately if your position is worse but still reasonable. Lashing out wildly in an inferior position usually only hastens defeat. Meanwhile, solid, stubborn defense can demoralize the attacker, make him lose confidence. When that happens, the tables can turn. Keep fighting, stay steady, keep morale high - and public protests are good for all of these things.”

Fighting Defeat Protest Steady Stubborn Morale

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I am convinced most Americans - yes even white Americans - are committed to justice and equality for all people. I am convinced that most Americans are disgusted and even ashamed that Nazism is alive and well in this country that fought to defeat its evil ideology.”

People Country Evil Justice Defeat Committed Ideology Ashamed Disgusted

Author:Erwin McManus

“It's not success that makes a person's life worthy of legend. It's provocative defeat, someone who struggled mightily and lost. And that loss can't just be gratuitous - there has to be something about his or her character that whittles that loss into something provocative.”

Character Loss Defeat Worthy Provocative

Author:Lawrence Douglas

“So far the biggest accomplishment I give myself is getting the silver in the Olympic Trials. Even though it's kind of a defeat. Not too many people make it that far. I do see it as an accomplishment and one of my greatest.”

People Giving Kind Defeat Accomplishment Silver

Author:Keith Thurman

“The most difficult part is training and competing while observing the holy month of Ramadan, which involves fasting. The most rewarding part of being a Muslim athlete is my faith in God paired with my faith in myself. I approach every match with positivity and the belief that I can beat anyone on any given day. And in the face of defeat, I am able to learn from my mistakes and work on my weaknesses to prepare for next time.”

Belief Difficult Mistake Holy Training Weakness Defeat Athlete Positivity Faith In God Next Time Competing Observing My Mistakes

Author:Ibtihaj Muhammad

“For me, promotional thing about some new album coming out destroys a lot of the excitement of making records. Records, movies, books - they're not supposed to be like math books. The purpose of them is to kind of take us out of ourselves and give us some sort of alternate experience or respite. To try to maximize the relationship of listening to a record through promotion is like experiencing driving a car by reading about stimulus programs. It kind of defeats the purpose.”

Giving Trying Kind Book Purpose Reading Car Listening Program Defeat Math Driving Excitement Promotion

Author:Will Oldham

“I always say, "Don't let a 'no' or even a dismissal defeat you, let it be the fire that makes you want to go. Every time someone says, "No," that makes me even more determined. That's one of the things I want to try to teach young people. Oddly, the other thing I want to teach the young people is to get a hobby. That's what I first say: "Do something that brings you happiness other than acting, because this business is so fickle." I make blankets and stuffed animals. I don't know. I'm a weirdo.”

People Trying Animal Acting Teach Defeat Determined Blanket Weirdo Stuffed Animal

Author:Sutton Foster

“If a fighter suffers defeat, especially in a fight he feels he won, it will never leave his mind. He is always going to want to avenge that loss.”

Mind Suffering Fighting Loss Defeat Fighter

Author:Chris Eubank, Jr.

“"Hypercoherence" is one of the most dangerous threats to the long-term survival of our civilization. Hypercoherence is the close efficient linkage of all parts of the world economic, communication and transport systems. It has been crucial in the spread of great innovations, the rise of world wealth, and even the dissemination of democratic concepts and ethical values and the defeat of oppressive regimes.”

World Values Wealth Economic Dangerous Communication Survival Innovation Threat Democratic Defeat Spread Ethical Transport

Author:Arthur Demarest

“The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.”

Believe I Believe Democracy Defeat Ideology

Author:George W. Bush

“Foreign fighters are travelling into Iraq to make it a front line in the war on terror. And I would rather defeat them there than face them in our own country.”

War Country Defeat Terror Fighter War On Terror

Author:George W. Bush

“The Democrats don't like the Tea Party because the Tea Party engineered their defeat. The Republicans, some members, don't like the Tea Party because the Tea Party illustrates what they have to do to win and they're not really comfortable with that.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.”

Knows Problem Political President Study Economic Lows Scientist Election Defeat Productivity Factors Rising Unemployment Inflation Carter Economic Problems President Carter

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“The challenge in Iraq is to provide a security plan such that a political process can go forward. I'm sure you all are tired of hearing me say 12 million Iraqi voted. But it's an indication about the desire for people to live in a free society. That's what that means. The only way to defeat Al Qaida ideology in the long term is to defeat it through another ideology, a competing ideology, one that - where government responds to the will of the people.”

People Mean Long Political Desire Term Challenges Security Tired Defeat Ideology Long Term Competing

Author:George W. Bush

“That's really the fundamental question we face here in the beginning of this 21st century is whether or not we believe as a nation and others believe it is possible to defeat this ideology.”

Believe Defeat Ideology 21st Century

Author:George W. Bush

“This is a global war on terror. We're facing extremists that believe something. And they want to achieve objectives. And, therefore, the United States must use all our assets and we must work with others to defeat this enemy. That's the call.”

Believe War Enemy Achieve Defeat Terror Extremist War On Terror

Author:George W. Bush

“We've got to have all those tools. The Patriot Act tearing down those walls between intel and law enforcement are a necessary part of protecting the country. But, in the long term, the only way to defeat this terrorist bunch is through the spread of liberty and freedom. And that's a big challenge. I understand it's a challenge. It requires commitment and patience and persistence.”

Long Country Term Challenges Liberty Wall Commitment Defeat Spread Terrorist Persistence Long Term Patriot Law Enforcement Patriot Act

Author:George W. Bush

“Boxing and chess are similar. Its about the choice of means. Sometimes I need a pawn, a bishop or a knight to defeat my opponent. Its about finding the best way. A good boxer has to be variable. He doesnt just need to know how to punch. He must also know how to protect himself, how to defend, how to avoid the opponents punches. Only a complete fighter can become champion.”

Mean Sometimes Choices Protect Defeat Chess Fighter Champion Boxing

Author:Lennox Lewis

“Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.”

Men Winning Possibility Defeat Accepted Boxing

Author:Lennox Lewis

“I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.”

Ifs Deals Laughing Essentials Adversity Defeat Setback

Author:Allen Klein

“God is faithful. He'll fulfill every promise he's made. There's no disease God cannot heal, no heart he cannot mend, no bondage he cannot break, no enemy he cannot defeat, no mountain he cannot move, and no need he cannot meet. And because that same Spirit lives inside each of us, we move forward undaunted; we are unstoppable; and we live unshakeable. Focus on our unshakeable God instead of the chaos around you and he will carry you through the challenges and on to victory.”

Heart Moving Spirit Challenges Enemy Break Focus Victory Promise Mountain Chaos Defeat Heal Moving Forward Faithful Bondage Unstoppable

Author:Christine Caine

“Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is like a prison. You can have a life sentence in prison and it's the same in cities.”

People Home Accepting Prison Defeat Warrior Defeated

Author:Burhan Sonmez

“Everyone faces defeats, setbacks, reversals of fortune. But just like water wearing away rock, persistence triumphs. Resilience is one of the most important qualities I would look at in trying to predict who is going to be ultimately successful.”

Trying Important Water Quality Successful Defeat Resilience Persistence Setback

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance to our government, our culture and our ways of thinking and structuring the world. I think we've had a very "masculine" sensibility for a long time, and I think we need to go back to the roots of social imbalance. I think we have to try to right that first, and from there and all these more pressing issues will follow.”

Thinking World Trying Long Culture Feminism Balance Defeat Sensibility Patriarchy Masculine

Author:Ani DiFranco

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.”

Men Wisdom Fighting Winning Wise Plans Fool Defeat

Book:The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum

“I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.”

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.”

Fall Energy Teach Greater Defeat Disaster Reverse Prudence

Book:General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous

Source: General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”

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