#defeats

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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.


Bjorn Borg


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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.


Og Mandino


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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.


Plato


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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.


Bertolt Brecht


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I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.


Jim Cole


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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.


Amos Bronson Alcott


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I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.


John Byrne


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We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.


Moshe Sharett


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I think television defeats ventriloquism.


Paul Winchell


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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.


Robert E. Lee


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