Defeat Quotes

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

I will do whatever I can to defeat Hillary Clinton.

We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorists as long as we have a president [Barack Obama] unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorists'.

We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran.

Every parent is wondering, how do we keep our kids safe? We need a commander in chief who does what Ronald Reagan did with communism, which is he set out a global strategy to defeat Soviet communism.

Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara

There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

I think you spend 50 percent of your mental energy trying to defeat ad systems.

I’m ready when you are, Lucan.” “Okay,” he said, shaking his head in defeat. “Let’s go get our boy.

We must never shed tears That is the life form’s defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.

I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.

It has never been more critical that a leader step forward to accelerate our understanding of cancer - and champion the effort to finally defeat it. That leader will be the Duke Cancer Institute.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.

You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.

The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.

No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win.

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momen

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

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

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

It is what it is because you let it be so.

How a man handles himself in defeat is more important than how he handles himself in victory.

If you encounter defeat, you must persist to be a winner.

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

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in life placidly, knowing that autumn and winter come after summer.

Too scared to fightToo afraid to open my eyesToo small to stand up for myselfToo awake to fight for my dreamsGod please teach me to be brave So that I can brave defeat

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of what you mastered, and powerful because of what you conquered.