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Experiencing defeat from time to time is an inevitable part of life … 

• But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for. Paulo Coelho
• I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. Muhammad Ali
• It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated…it is finished when it surrenders. Ben Stein
• Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So, let us celebrate the struggle! Swami Sivananda
• Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Ralph Ellison
• Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Failure,  Losing,  Losers, Loss,  Victory, Winning,  Winners,  Adversity,  Perseverance,  Obstacles,  Rejection,  Surrender

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… especially if you want to live a full, active life of purpose 

• It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done 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 on valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and 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 fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
• Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. Anaïs Nin
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It’s far better to be defeated in the pursuit of your dreams than never to try … 

• But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for. Paulo Coelho
• Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life’s most important battle–he defeated the fear of trying.  Robert H. Schuller
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… for the worst defeat in life is not to attempt 

• Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George Edward Woodberry
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Teddy Roosevelt
• There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. Kin Hubbard

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Don’t be afraid of defeat 

• Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. Henry Ward Beecher
• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. Billie Jean King 
• Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. Arthur Ashe
• You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose. Charles Lynch
• You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose. Jack Campbell
• Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. Rob Gilbert
• Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. Robert Kiyosaki
• Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. Matt Biondi
• Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated. Robert Frost
• It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle and makes a man invincible, and form those heroic natures that are now in ascendancy in the world. Do not, then, be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause. Henry Ward Beecher
• Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost. Kobo Abe
• Avoid defeat and you will avoid success. Chinese Proverb
• There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side: the fear of a defeat on the useful side. Alfred Adler
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Defeat can show the way forward 

• When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. Paulo Coelho

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Defeat can be a stepping stone to victory … 

• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill
• They who lose today may win tomorrow. Cervantes (Don Quixote)
• Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track. Matthew Keith Groves
• That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. Richard Bach
• In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. Van Morrison
• I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. Woodrow Wilson
• See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone. Eileen Caddy
• What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. Wendell Phillips
• Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success. Jeffrey Fry
• Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. Orison Swett Marden
• The first step in our journey of prosperity often is defeat. Edward Counsel
• A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred. James Ellis
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… and even a stepping stone to greatness 

• Recipe for greatness? To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. Zane Grey
• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. Sam Snead
• Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. Wilma Rudolph
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Success is often just one step beyond defeat 

• Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Napoleon Hill
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Defeat can make you stronger 

• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. Muhammad Ali
• Strength and courage aren’t always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome. The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose. Ashley Hodgeson
• Women are never so strong as after their defeat. Alexandre Dumas
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Defeat builds character 

• There was a saying that a man’s true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory. Alison Goodman
• You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character. Richard M. Nixon
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Defeat can equip you for the battle of life 

• A young man is not fitted for life’s battle until he has met and survived defeat. Lewis F. Korns
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Defeat sweetens victory 

• Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat. Malcolm Forbes
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Defeat can shape your soul and bring out its beauty 

• What treasure can I see in this? No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out. Susan Jeffers
• The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Don’t allow failure to defeat you 

• Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. Robert Kiyosak
• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing. Dennis Waitley
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Don’t allow obstacles to defeat you 

• Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles, big or small, and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself. There is no such thing as defeat until you admit so yourself, but not until then! Bruce Lee
• Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather, achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted. William Hastie
• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. Bertie C. Forbes
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You’re not defeated until you take it to heart 

• Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. Josephus Daniels
• We lost because we told ourselves we lost. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat. Arthur Ashe
• Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it. Ted Engstrom
• There is no defeat except from within. American Proverb
• Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. Norman Vincent Peale

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Encounter defeats but don’t be defeated 

• While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated. Maya Angelou
• Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. Roger Crawford
• Just because I face a defeat does not mean I am defeated. Jeffrey Fry
• No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.  Eleanor Roosevelt

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Defeat is only temporary unless you give up 

• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn Vos Savant
• It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated…it is finished when it surrenders. Ben Stein
• It’s only a sure defeat when you stop trying. Ann Aguirre
• Defeat is always momentary. Peter Jackson
• Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits. Richard M. Nixon
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After defeat, have the courage to pick yourself up and keep going 

• Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. Wilma Rudolph
• To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. Neal Ascherson
• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn Vos Savant
• Strength and courage aren’t always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome. The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose. Ashley Hodgeson
• There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can’t just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don’t, you’re the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win. Alexandra Monir
• The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. Robert Green Ingersoll
• You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again. Pat Riley
• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. Sam Snead
• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. Napoleon Hill
• Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. Santosh Kalwar
• The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important. Austin O’Malley
• We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. Abdul Kalam
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The taste of defeat doesn’t have to be bitter 

• Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you. Henry Ward Beecher
• Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it. Ted Engstrom
• The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own. Bill Bradley

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Some battles are worth fighting even when defeat is sure 

• Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. George Eliot
• There could be no honour in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. Ann Landers

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Sometimes defeat is preferable to victory 

• A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. Sallust
• It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell
• There are many victories worse than a defeat. George Eliot
• Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel Eyquem De Michel de Montaigne
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Defeat holds no disgrace if you did your best 

• Losing is no disgrace if you’ve given your best. Jim Palmer
• In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best. Eric Liddell

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Don’t believe or follow your self-defeating thoughts 

• If you’re unfamiliar with trusting your intuition, start by setting aside a little quiet time to clear your mind and listen. Ignore and dismiss any habitual, self-defeating thoughts that enter your mind and pay attention only to the calm thoughts that begin to surface. Richard Carlson
• Just because you have a self-defeating thought, does not mean that it is true, or that you need to follow its lure. Trust me, you are not your thoughts, you are not your mind, you are not your ego. You are divine, you are precious and you have it within yourself to fulfil your heart’s deepest desires. Tina Su
• You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don’t do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones. Marsha Sinetar

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Surrender is not necessarily defeat 

• The word “surrender” is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have. David Deida
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Transcend defeat through a positive attitude 

• How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it — you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. Franco Harris
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Transcend defeat through the resilience of your soul 

• Defeat is in your mind… resilience is in your soul. Keri Murphy
• True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances. Daisaku Ikeda
• For a gallant spirit, there can never be defeat. Wallis Simpson
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Transcend defeat through laughter 

• 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. Og Mandino
• He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. John Steinbeck
• Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Carl Sandburg
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Use defeat as a stimulant to increase your determination 

• Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. Robert South
• If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated. Serena Williams
• Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. Robert Kiyosak
• Second place is not a defeat. It is a stimulation to get better. It makes you even more determined. Carlos Lopes
• The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain–he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem–he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills. William Arthur Ward
• A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very centre of their beings…. There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle. Orison Swett Marden
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Learn from your defeat, for that is to win 

• If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. Zig Ziglar
• That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. Richard Bach
• If you learn from a loss you have not lost. Austin O’Malley
• Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. Donald Trump
• From victory we learn little, from defeat – everything. Jeffrey Fry
• There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. Malcolm X
• I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. Lou Holtz
• 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. Robert Collier
• I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. Tom Landry
• Defeat is a school in which Truth always grows strong. Henry Ward Beecher
• Defeat teaches us life’s most valuable lessons. Chinese Proverb
• We learn little from victory, much from defeat. Japanese Proverb
• You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. Paul Brown
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Before a challenge, don’t entertain the possibility of defeat … 

• To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. Henry Louis Mencken
• Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems. Paul J. Meyer
• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist. Queen Victoria
• The minute you start talking about what you are going to do if you lose, you have lost. George Shultz
• Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. Pat Riley

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… but have plans for it 

• A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. Louis L’Amour
• A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses. Eric Berne

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After defeat, create a new plan and approach 

• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. Napoleon Hill
• To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth. Bruce Lee
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Greatness is treating defeat and victory the same 

• Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory. John Steinbeck
• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there’s going to be a life after tennis that’s a lot longer than your tennis life. Chris Evert Lloyd
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Be gracious and graceful in defeat 

• One test of strength is the ability to take defeat graciously. Lewis F. Korns
• You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser. Joe Namath
• The cheerful loser is the winner. Elbert Hubbard
• To be a good loser is to learn how to win. Carl Sandburg
• The cheerful loser is a sort of winner. William Howard Taft
• All the world loves a good loser. Kin Hubbard
• God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser. Sir Robert Baden- Powell
• Learn how to be a loser, because it’s important to be a loser to be a winner. Sanford I. Weill
• He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully. Christian Nestell Bovee

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Show respect to those you defeat 

• Always show respect. However much you disagree with someone, attack the argument, not the person. To use a sporting metaphor: play the ball, not the man. As Nelson Mandela explained in his autobiography “Long Walk To Freedom”: “I defeated my opponents without dishonouring them”. Roger Darlington
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See competition in a positive light, not just as defeating an opponent 

• There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up. The Dalai Lama
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Defeat is never permanent …

• Defeat is always momentary. Peter Jackson
• A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred. James Ellis
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… and nor is victory 

• If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat. Simone de Beauvoir

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Perfectionism is a sure path to defeat 

• If you demand of yourself a perfect presentation, a project that is beyond criticism, perfect adherence to a diet, or a spotless home, you are setting yourself up for defeat and inevitable self- The more perfectionist and self- critical you are, the harder it is to start on a project that you already know will never be quite good enough. Holding on to an image of perfection will make you afraid of seeing what your real product will look like, it will keep you from preparing for failure with a plan that helps you bounce back, and it will increase your tendency to abandon your project when confronted with a normal problem in the developmental process. Ironically, being a perfectionist and criticizing yourself about mistakes makes failures more likely and worse. Neil Fiore
• Perfection’ is man’s ultimate illusion. It simply doesn’t exist in the universe…. If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.” David Burns
• Perfectionists are the losers in the game of life. Strive for excellence rather than the unachievable.  Geoffrey James
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Violence is a sure path to defeat 

• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi
• War is a defeat for humanity. Pope John Paul II
• There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence. Cesar Chavez
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Revenge is a sure path to defeat 

• Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left. Chris Bradford
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Constant comparison to others is a sure path to defeat 

• Comparison is your death trap. It is the beginning point, and middle point, and ending point, of most defeat or failure, for it holds you in that position of negative emotion, which holds you in that place of negative attraction. And you simply cannot offer enough action to compensate for that. You just cannot. Abraham-Hicks
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To hate is a form of spiritual defeat 

• 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. George William Russell
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Don’t allow your principles to be defeated 

• We may be personally defeated, but our principles never. William Lloyd Garrison
• The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. Andrew Carnegie
• It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell
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Don’t let pessimism or criticism to defeat you 

• Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. Gordon B. Hinckley
• I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. Nelson Mandela
• As soon as you concern yourself with the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. Morihei Ueshiba
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Don’t allow your past to defeat you 

• My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me. Steve Maraboli
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Don’t let fear defeat you 

• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it. Joyce Meyer
• I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always … so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you. Yann Martel
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Don’t let your pride defeat you 

• Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. Henry Bolingbroke
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Don’t allow the fault finders to defeat you 

• 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. Og Mandino
• The man who is worthy of being “a leader of men” will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power. William J. H. Boetcker

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Don’t allow guilt to defeat you 

• My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent. William Shakespeare
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Don’t let age defeat you 

• There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. Sophia Loren
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Don’t allow your doubts to defeat you 

• Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame. P.C. Cast
• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. Marcus Garvey
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Don’t allow your self-defeating behaviours to defeat you 

• All forms of self-defeating behaviour are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. Vernon Howard
• Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self- defeating items that you can eliminate from your life. Wayne Dyer
• There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. Max Eastman
• Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self- defeating behaviour with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships. Stephen Covey
• You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self- defeating ways means you’ve lost them forever. Wayne Dyer

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Compromise can be a form of defeat 

• Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight—the lazy, the cunning, the cowardly—for they consider themselves defeated before they start. Josemaria Escriva
• The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. Andrew Carnegie
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We are defeated by what we refuse to face 

• Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller
• Face challenges head-on

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Defeat prejudice, ignorance and racism, especially in yourself 

• Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. Kofi Annan
• Prejudice,  Ignorance

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Defeat your negative habits 

• Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois
• Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. Arthur Koestler
• Habit

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Defeat procrastination 

• To defeat procrastination, learn to tackle your most unpleasant task first thing in the morning instead of delaying it until later in the day. This small victory will set the tone for a very productive day. Steve Pavlina
• Procrastination

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Defeat complexity 

• Creativity defeats complication with simplicity, overcomes fear with empowerment, and discovers order by achieving balance. Michael Rawls
• Complexity

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Defeat your enemy by understanding him 

• 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. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them. Orson Scott Card
• Understanding,  Enemies

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• In the morning, I brush my teeth with hope, and at night before bed I brush them with defeat. Both are mint flavoured, so I try not to get them mixed up. Jarod Kintz
• Tears are the hydraulic force by which masculine will power is defeated by feminine water power.
• If lessons are learned in defeat as they say, our team is really getting a great education. Murray Warmath
• In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable. Winston Churchill
• In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat, you need it. Napoleon Bonaparte
• It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
• The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Russell Baker

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