Best 587 quotes in «defeat quotes» category

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

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

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

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

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

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.

My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.

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.

[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.

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

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.

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

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.

Now we have Republicans - to one degree or another - working as hard as the Democrats are to defeat Donald Trump.

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

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

One lesson is to not to play desperately if your position is worse but still reasonable. Lashing out wildly in an inferior position usually only hastens defeat. Meanwhile, solid, stubborn defense can demoralize the attacker, make him lose confidence. When that happens, the tables can turn. Keep fighting, stay steady, keep morale high - and public protests are good for all of these things.

Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

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

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.

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.

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.