Best 119 quotes in «defeated quotes» category

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.

Arrogant people beat each other.

History is: + the lies of the victors + the self-delusions of the defeated + a raw onion sandwich + certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation

But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere." "'They?' Who are 'they?'" "I don't know. Just people." "That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?

But I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always.

Defeat your fears and you can never be defeated.

History has become littered with the broken souls of the defeated.

Humour is the last resort of the defeated...

I kept waiting for this momentous breakdown, with everything crashing down in some spectacular show. What I didn't recognize, is that all along I had been crumbling slowly and quietly, like unfired clay. It's almost boring how unspectacular it is. Nothing earth shattering happened, in fact that's the problem; day after day nothing happens. You just feel incapable, unfocused, disorganized, and defeated. Make some strong coffee and get to work. You're not alone.

its more a trance, jonah said. the whole world is pressing in on me, like a weight on my chest, slowly pushing me down ans down. and there's nothing between me and this weight but my flimsy skin. Its not enough. It won't protect me. It doesn't keep anything out. The outside will keep pressing until my ribs are crushed.

People with inferiority intentions do not go after their dreams not because they can't go; but because their passion is not strong enough to turn the wheels of success...and there they go, becoming losers, defeated by their obstacles!

A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy.

Grind me, crush me, beat me But low I shall not lie I shall bounce back with much more fervour And my zeal shall touch the sky…

I finally gave in today. Admitting that I haven't been able to do it alone, that's defeat right? But do a couple pills change why I'm here? Will my spirit be altered? Do my passions change? Will I lose hope either way? My madness is what makes me. It’s my most unique beauty.

I prefer to die fighting than living defeated

It’s like I’m on a roller-coaster ride, but I’m not allowed to get off. I’m strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.

...some patients resist the diagnosis of a post-traumatic disorder. They may feel stigmatized by any psychiatric diagnosis or wish to deny their condition out of a sense of pride. Some people feel that acknowledging psychological harm grants a moral victory to the perpetrator, in a way that acknowledging physical harm does not.

Many people are trying hard to be invincible, and most of the time they fail invisible, while few find their spotlight. But the remarkable person is one, who can be both invincible and invisible at the same time.

The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.

The voice in her head said: Imperfect, unlovable, victim, defeated, hide. The voice in her heart said: Kind, peaceful, gentle soul, easy to love, winner. Release the insecurities and reclaim your heart, your purpose, your peace.

The only way to prevent your problem from jubilating over you is to confront them head to head with the singular hope that they will be defeated!

To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!

A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

A true champion is not only formed in victory. To be defeated makes you learn.

Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work.

Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

. . . there are two types of fighters, the former strike all over the place hoping one would land, the latter, assured of their prowess and capabilities, hit once and destroy the opponent's desire to continue the fight

winter is no stranger to cold hearts.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

Dwarfs have also the right to despise the giants, because giants too can be defeated!

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.

Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right a thousand times over, to be defeated by a stronger opponent or a stronger coalition.

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama.

I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

I never defeated a healthy opponent.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated.