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It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.
You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
It's not easy to go up the steps after a defeat. It's very difficult for me, for everybody, but we have to accept it.
Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.
Democrats will come together as we should to make sure that we can defeat Donald Trump and elect our party's nominee.
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
It's like [Donald's Trump] plan to defeat ISIS. He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.
There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.
Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.
Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
Small changes lead to big ones. But big changes - trying to become a different person overnight - usually lead to defeat.
I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
To become a world champion, to defeat Anderson Silva, to accomplish my goal in one night, it was a super surreal feeling.
When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
Immediately after taking office, I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS.
Depression is a serious thing and, after my defeat to Pacquiao, I was facing retirement and didn't cope with it very well.
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
A win doesn't last too long, and it happens the same way with a defeat. You have the chance to make it up soon afterwards.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
We have to defeat Hillary Clinton, or the country we know will not be the country our children and grandchildren grow up in.
In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.
If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.
Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
You always learn from a defeat, even more than when you win games, because when you win, you don't see everything you did wrong.
When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.