Defeat Quotes
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Defeat Quotes & Sayings
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As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear.
— Farshad Asl
In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.
— Charles Stanley
You must never surrender to any defeat.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.
— Matthew Thomas
He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.
— Wilferd Peterson
you cannot overcome something, without first standing toe to toe with it, then challenging yourself to defeat that which you want to change
— Rick Ferreira
To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
— Harold S. Kushner
Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.
— Curtis Jackson
May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you.
— Paulo Coelho
If you keep avoiding the forces that can defeat you, you may never learn your true power!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. It's ok to cry..!! You can overcome
— Eiichiro Oda
I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
— Fernando Pessoa
Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.
— Kevin McCarthy
It only cost Mitt Romney $76.6 million to defeat a serial adulterer and a mental patient in a sweater vest.
— Andy Borowitz
There are only two things that I would do when there's change, either I stay and embrace it or I let go before I defeat its purpose.
— Laarni Venus Marie Giango
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
— R. Scott Bakker
All you have to do is try. And to me, the worst kind of defeat is not failure per se. It's the decision not to try.
— Novak Djokovic
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.[News conference, April 21 1961] — John F. Kennedy
To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.
— Haki R. Madhubuti
If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
— Dick Vermeil
Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
— G. Gordon Liddy
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
— Dennis Miller
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
— John F. Kennedy
On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self.
— Akira Toriyama
Yet there's no one to beat you | No one t' defeat you | 'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad
— Bob Dylan
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.
— Avijeet Das
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
— Ann Landers
Haters saying they wanna defeat us, they don't hate us they wanna be us. Truth is you can't join us or beat us.
— Wiz Khalifa
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
— Helen Keller
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
— Thomas Carlyle
Defeat serves to enlighten us.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
— Kate Smith
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
— William Hartston
My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
— Rose Kennedy
With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
— Kelly Miller
The art of victory is learned in defeat.
— Simon Bolivar
For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
— Jonathan Carroll
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.
— Emile De Girardin
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
— James A. Michener
Victory and defeat are found in the same entity
— Thabiso Monkoe
Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young. - Cara
— Terry Goodkind
A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.
— James Mattis
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For him, the game is not to defeat the opponent, but to challenge his own abilities.
— Haruki Murakami
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.
— Wilferd Peterson
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat
— Theodore Roosevelt
You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?
— Maria Semple
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.
— Alan Keyes
You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.
— Israelmore Ayivor
South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.
— William Colby
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
— Karl Liebknecht
Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
— Martin Firrell
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
— Herbert Marcuse
Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.
— Bill Musselman
The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.
— Dale Carnegie
To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.
— Preston Morgan
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The ultimate fighter does not rely on his hands or feet to defeat his opponent, but rather his mind.
— M.J. Stoddard
drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat.
— Alex Ferguson
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
— Criss Jami
Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.
— Tsunetomo Yamamoto
Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
— Kathleen Dowling Singh
There are many paths to victory; choose the shortest one! There are many paths to defeat; choose the longest one!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit
— Napoleon Hill
Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
— Banana Yoshimoto
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.
— Garry Kasparov
