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So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

—Tom Robbins

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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

—Ernest Hemingway

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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

—William Lloyd Garrison

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The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire.

—Émile de Girardin

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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

—Russell Baker

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There are two things to remember about a revolution: first, we're gonna get our asses kicked, and second, we're gonna win.

—Unknown

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Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

—Carlos Castaneda

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The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

—Rabindranath Tagore

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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

—George Edward Woodberry

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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

—Michel de Montaigne

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You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

—Oprah Winfrey

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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

—Quintilian

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Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

—Ralph W. Sockman

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