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"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."
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"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate."
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Personal Development
"Man is not made for defeat."
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Personal Development
"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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Personal Development
"I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat."
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"You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat."
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Personal Development
"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
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"With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat."
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"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate."
Emotional
"In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery."
Politics
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
Fortune
"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."
Health
"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."
Unity
"In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art."
Art
"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed."
Life
"No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right."
Man
"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural."
Life
"Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others."
Politics
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