Defeat Quotes

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

It is true that we are under occupation, but we are not the weaker party. We are the military force which Israel failed to defeat.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.

I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.

When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

When the heavens are with you, when the earth is with you, when the sea is with you, when the wind is with you. Who's going to defeat you after that? Nobody.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree.

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.

Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.