Defeat Quotes

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside." "Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.

Our country doesn't win anymore. We don't win on trade. We don't win on the military. We can't defeat ISIS. We're not taking care of our great people, the veterans. We're not taking care of them.

Immediately after taking office, I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS.

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

To overextend yourself is to invite defeat.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. That's why they're fighting so vociferously.

The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope - an ideology of hate - excuse me - with an ideology of hope.

That's really the fundamental question we face here in the beginning of this 21st century is whether or not we believe as a nation and others believe it is possible to defeat this ideology.

Foreign fighters are travelling into Iraq to make it a front line in the war on terror. And I would rather defeat them there than face them in our own country.

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

After [Tomas] Jefferson's defeat of [John] Adams in the presidential election of 1800, they didn't communicate with one another for more than a decade.

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.

Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS.

I will take a backseat to no one in keeping America safe. I have a very clear set of proposals about how we defeat ISIS.

It's like [Donald's Trump] plan to defeat ISIS. He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.

I intend to defeat ISIS, to do so in a coalition with majority Muslim nations.

We have to defeat ISIS. That is my highest counterterrorism goal.

I think there are a number of issues that we should be addressing. I have put forth a plan to defeat ISIS.

I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we will. We have to defeat radical jihadist terrorism.

We've got to keep fighting, and I will defeat ISIS.

Having inborn capabilities doesn't matter. Whether you can manage them or not, that's what determines the victory or defeat.

Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat.