Best 587 quotes in «defeat quotes» category

Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.

Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

War is a defeat for humanity.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.

We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again. And we're not putting ground troops into Syria. We're going to defeat ISIS without committing American ground troops.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.

We have to defeat ISIS. That is my highest counterterrorism goal.

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.

We see and realise that the political situation in the United States is influenced by those who have lost the elections but refuse to accept their defeat, and who continue to use the anti-Russia card and various allegations most actively in the political infighting. This is why we are in no hurry, we are ready to wait, yet we strongly hope that Russian-US relations will become normal again sometime in the future.

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

We've got to keep fighting, and I will defeat ISIS.

We will get them stuck in the mud and we will certainly defeat them.

We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, DC, I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves.

Will power defeats all powers

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that.

Woe to the conquered.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

You can see that there is scarcely an observable fact unworthy of mention in your notes, and yet you could easily spend more time scribbling than watching, and that would defeat the purpose. So be selective, don't be compulsive, and enjoy your note-taking.