Atlantic Canada's culture of defeat will be hard to overcome as long as Atlantic Canada is actually physically trailing the rest of the country.
Atlantic Canada's culture of defeat will be hard to overcome as long as Atlantic Canada is actually physically trailing the rest of the country.
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
War is a defeat for humanity.
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat... Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy.
Certainly the tour was a disappointment, but we should be careful and not get carried away by the defeats and throw players out because of that.
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.
A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure Seek it out. Learn to love it.
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.
Young people . ., God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Human nature is the same everywhere it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Ideally, I would have hoped these people would have heard the fat lady singing and they would have realized the defeat for what it is,
The way we love inevitably defeats the ends of love. Defeat in love engulfs our whole personality.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
I'm absolutely convinced the defeat of the Soviet Union hockey team by the 1980 Olympic miracle team destroyed the collective psyche of the Soviet nation. To this day, the Soviets cannot believe the Miracle on Ice. Every person I have ever met who meets Bob Suter thanks him for changing history by winning a hockey game. Hell, the Russians haven't been the same since
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men.For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is again in heat.
You have very little time as a coach to make big changes after a defeat once the tournament starts. We will work hard on our tactics and our fitness and try and lift ourselves. After all we are not out of it yet.
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
He was indefatigably cheerful. He was very gracious in defeat.
Because of their decade of defeat, Democrats have now dropped to the least common denominator the politics of personal destruction,
I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Use the big thinker's vocabulary. Use big, bright, cheerful words. Use words that promise victory, hope, happiness, pleasure, avoid words that create unpleasant images of failure, defeat, grief.
There are some ideas out there, but it will be more difficult to pursue (them) given today's defeat.
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
Sacred Heart really picks up the defense when they can smell the defeat. They are a good ball team with a lot of big-game experience that we are lacking right now. When they have a chance to finish you off, they do it.
We wrestled real tough today. Even in some of our defeats, the kids wrestled real well and competed on the mat. Theres no place to hide up here in any of the weights. There are tough guys in every match.
It teaches that war is cruel and wasteful but sometimes necessary. That a blundering victory is more to be valued than a heroic defeat. That might and right sometimes come to the same end. All these things happened on June 6, 1944.
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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