Best 587 quotes in «defeat quotes» category

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.

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.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

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!

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

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

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

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 face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.

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

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

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

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 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 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 method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

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

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

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.