"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."

Defeat, End, Reason, Struggle

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"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."

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"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."

Roy Acuff, American Musician

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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Defeat,

"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."

William F. Buckley, Jr., American Journalist

Defeat, Doubt, Iraq

"I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide."

Joshua Logan, American Director

Defeat, Reality, Suicide

"I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves."

Roy M. Cohn, American Lawyer

Defeat, Enemies

"I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat."

Russell Crowe, Australian Actor

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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."

Robert South, English Clergyman

Defeat, Discouragement

"We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be."

Denis Kearney, American Politician

Defeat, Defiance, Falsehood, Force

"What we now have in Iraq is a defeat."

Henry Waxman, American Politician

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"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."

Beverley Nichols, English Writer

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"But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision."

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"There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures."

People

"To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity."

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"All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool."

Literature

"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style."

Style

"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."

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"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."

"I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide."

"I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves."

"I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat."

"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."

"We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be."

"What we now have in Iraq is a defeat."

"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."

Explore more quotes by Steven Brust

"But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision."

"There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures."

"To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity."

"All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool."

"A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be."

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"I'd rather be running the game than playing it."

"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style."

"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."

"Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?"