Defeat Quotes

I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.

Not even need and love can defeat fate.

you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.

Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.

Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

Greatest victory which we desire, is to defeat truth and Lo! Truth is undefeated

All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.

An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.

It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That brought me experience and it will help me a lot to gain the desired world title.

It only cost Mitt Romney $76.6 million to defeat a serial adulterer and a mental patient in a sweater vest.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.

My core goal is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and its allies that killed Americans and are still plotting to go kill Americans.

I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.

Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.

A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.

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

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.

I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy".