Best 587 quotes in «defeat quotes» category

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

Our priority in Syria, really hasn't changed. I think the President Donald Trump has been quite clear. First and foremost, we must defeat ISIS.

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

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.

Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan.

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.

Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

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

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.

Setrakus is more or less invincible. Only Pittacus Lore, the most powerful of all the Lorien Elders, would have been able to defeat him.

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.

Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat

Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.

That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

The greatest victory is defeat.

The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat: - let such a one be dismissed!

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler