Defeated Quotes

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

I just feel like with God you can't be defeated.

See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.

The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people.

AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.

The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies.

If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

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

[God's] purposes are always accomplished. His enemies are always defeated. His faithful followers are always rewarded. His Son's throne will be established forever.

Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.

Truth cannot be defeated.

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.

Success through the eyes of one once defeated, is true VICTORY.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue...Shadows of yesterday's grief melt in the rays of early morn's opportunity.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.