Best 587 quotes in «defeat quotes» category

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

Immediately after taking office, I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.

I’m ready when you are, Lucan.” “Okay,” he said, shaking his head in defeat. “Let’s go get our boy.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

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.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.

Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

It is defeat which educates us.

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

It's getting tougher and tougher to defeat ISIS, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nations.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.

It's not success that makes a person's life worthy of legend. It's provocative defeat, someone who struggled mightily and lost. And that loss can't just be gratuitous - there has to be something about his or her character that whittles that loss into something provocative.

I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.

I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.

I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.

Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories.

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

I will take a backseat to no one in keeping America safe. I have a very clear set of proposals about how we defeat ISIS.