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Quotes About Defeat

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.
~ Paulo Coelho
Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.
~ Paulo Coelho
You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.
~ Paulo Coelho
The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured.
~ Paulo Coelho
Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don't be nasty. find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: What a pointless existence. Whether you like it or not, i know how to defeat you. You're wasting your time.
~ Paulo Coelho
If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again—only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a Warrior of the Light perseveres until the end.
~ Paulo Coelho
Disappointment,Defeat,Despair are the tools God uses to show us our way... (Paulo Coelho)
~ Paulo Coelho
It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.
~ Paulo Coelho
sometimes we win and sometimes we lose , don't expect anything to get back
~ Paulo Coelho
May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you.
~ Paulo Coelho
When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquility, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight - disappointment and defeat - become the sole legacy of our cowardice.
~ Paulo Coelho
No one can avoid defeat. That is why it is better to lose a few battles in the fight for your dreams than to be defeated without even knowing why you are fighting.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even our enemies call him 'great soul,' and declare that they are honored in defeat by such a one.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Then the young warrior said, "How can I defeat you?" Fear replied, "My weapons are that I talk fast, and I get very close to your face. Then you get completely unnerved, and you do whatever I say. If you don't do what I tell you, I have no power. You can listen to me, and you can have respect for me. You can even be convinced by me. But if you don't do what I say, I have no power." In that way, the student warrior learned how to defeat fear.
~ Pema Chodron
Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.
~ Miguel Syjuco
Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.
~ Colin Powell
Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
~ Sophie Kinsella
The art of victory is learned in defeat.
~ Simon Bolivar
Never leave an enemy standing.
~ Unknown
Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.
~ Georges St-Pierre
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
~ Ben Jonson
Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.
~ Unknown