Best 119 quotes in «defeated quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

...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.

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

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!

. . . 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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.

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

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.

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

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

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.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

ISIS have to be defeated. They have to be defeated militarily. How are we going to do that if we continue to weaken our military?

I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly erase the concept of feminism.

It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.