Famous quotes containing the word defeat:
“Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.”
—Galeazzo Ciano (19031944)
“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 (18961940)
“And, Better defeat almost,
If seen clear,
Than lifes victories of doubt
That need endless talk-talk
To make them out.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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