Defeat Quotes

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

Do not speak defeat, speak victory.

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

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

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

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

The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.

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

View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.

‎For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat.

Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.

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

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again. And we're not putting ground troops into Syria. We're going to defeat ISIS without committing American ground troops.

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

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

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

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

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

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

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.