#defeats

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

#face #happen #know #may #military

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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