Defeat Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

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

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

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.

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.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

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.

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

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

we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

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

In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

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

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

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

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

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

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

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

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

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

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

God will defeat the great infidels.

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

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.

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

It is defeat which educates us.