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The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

Kim Il Sung

War

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.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Sam Snead

Ability

Defeat

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Wallis Simpson

Defeat

Spirit

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Victory

Defeat

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

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

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.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Affliction

Defeat

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.