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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo
US industrialist, lawyer, & politician (1863 - 1941)

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Keller
US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Saul Bellow
US (Canadian-born) author (1915 - )

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Quintilian
Roman rhetorician

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

Oswald Chambers

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway
US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)

Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.

Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003

Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.

John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]., p289. Comment made by JFK in the aftermath of the fai
US Democratic politician (1917 - 1963)

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit- a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor- that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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
US author (1891 - 1980)

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale
US clergyman (1898 - 1993)

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Crawford

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

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

Rosilind Russell

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