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Defeat

(verb) To overcome in battle or contest. Example: "Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo."

16 QUOTES
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
— Paulo Coelho
"I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends."
— Dalai Lama
"I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself."
— Oscar Wilde
"No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
— Sun Tzu
"You defeat defeatism with confidence."
— Vince Lombardi
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."
— Maya Angelou
"You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth."
— Walt Disney
"Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat."
— Sun Tzu
"Do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat."
— Sun Tzu
"While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated."
— Maya Angelou
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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