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Letter "D" » defeat
«Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.»
«In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.»
«If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(
Author,
General)
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About:
Enemies,
Self-knowledge
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Keywords:
also,
a hundred,
battles,
defeat,
enemy,
For every,
gained,
hundred,
neither,
Nor,
result,
succumb,
succumbed,
succumbing,
succumbs,
suffer,
The Enemy,
victory
«It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(
President)
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About:
Action,
Ambition,
Courage,
Criticism,
Willpower
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Keywords:
achievement,
actually,
again,
again and again,
arena,
at least,
at the best,
at the worst,
bad blood,
belongs,
best-known,
best,
better,
better known,
be all and end all,
blood,
blooded,
cause,
cause of a,
cold,
colder,
coldest,
colds,
comes,
come short,
could,
counts,
credit,
credited,
crediting,
credits,
critic,
daring,
deed,
deeds,
defeat,
devotion,
devotions,
Do,
doer,
does,
done,
dust,
dusted,
dusting,
Dust to Dust,
effort,
end,
end man,
end on,
end point,
enthusiasm,
enthusiasms,
error,
errs,
face,
face up,
fails,
for short,
Get High,
great,
greatly,
high,
Higher And Higher,
higher up,
highs,
High C,
His,
how,
In a,
in a bad way,
in a higher place,
in cold blood,
In the,
in the end,
is not,
know,
knows,
least,
man,
marred,
neither,
never,
Nor,
now and again,
other places,
our critics,
out,
outs,
place,
pointing out,
points,
point after,
point man,
point the way,
shall,
short,
shortcoming,
shortcomings,
shorts,
short I,
souls,
spends,
strive,
strived,
striven,
strives,
strong,
strong point,
stumbles,
sweat,
sweated,
sweating,
sweats,
Them,
there,
there is,
The Best,
The Best Man,
The Count,
The Critic,
The End,
The Great,
The Man,
The Man Who,
the Triumphs,
the very worst,
This is the Place,
those,
timid,
to a higher place,
triumph,
triumphed,
triumphing,
valiantly,
victory,
where,
while,
whiling,
worst,
Worthies,
worthiest,
worthy
«Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.»
«Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.»
Author: Og Mandino
(
Essayist,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
clearly,
cure,
defeat,
depression,
depressions,
derision,
drug,
drugged,
drugging,
ease,
eases,
freeing,
free spirit,
laugh at,
miracle,
perspective,
perspectives,
pity,
put in,
remedy,
seemingly,
self-pity,
self help,
seriously,
solution,
terrible,
the Depression,
The Spirit,
thus,
whines,
whining
«Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.»
Author: Og Mandino
(
Essayist,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
allow,
Brains,
business,
business life,
carefully,
cast,
cast about,
cast on,
child,
Child of God,
combating,
combats,
days,
defeat,
denial,
denials,
entire,
envy,
envying,
external,
externals,
fault,
finding,
flower,
flower child,
flower power,
foolish,
forces,
fragile,
gloom,
guard,
hate,
jealously,
life force,
menial,
No self,
on guard,
on your guard,
pall,
palls,
parade,
paraded,
parading,
permit,
pieces,
precious,
pull,
rain,
required,
sacrificed,
self-denial,
set,
set up,
shape,
talent,
thus,
wasted,
wasting time
«In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.»
«If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.»
«Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.»