Best 587 quotes in «defeat quotes» category

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 which educates us.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I will tell you that Hillary [Clinton] will tell you to go to her website and read all about how to defeat ISIS, which she could have defeated by never having it, you know, get going in the first place. Right now, it's getting tougher and tougher to defeat them, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nations.

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

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

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

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.

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.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

New York is not a city to return to in defeat.

Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.