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One should respect a defeated opponent!
— Alexander Khalifman
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
— Henry Fielding
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
He seemed much older and very tired, defeated.
— Lois Lowry
She clasped his hands and pressed her lips to them. 'I want you to be proud of me,' he repeated. She dropped his hands, feeling defeated.
— Natasha Farrant
Evil cannot be vanquished with a sword, and darkness cannot be defeated in battle but only by shining a bright enough light.
— David Zindell
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
— Rose Wilder Lane
Never be defeated by roadblocks life throws in your way. Instead, conquer them. You are much stronger than you give yourself credit for.
— Blaque Diamond
Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself.
— Deepak Chopra
Your heart gives you your power, Regina. Follow it, fight with it, and you cannot be defeated
— Simon Holt
Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.
— Morihei Ueshiba
Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God.
— Charles S. Price
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
— Mark Richard
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
— Murray Rothbard
Benedict somehow found the words he needed. "I give up, Evander. All the battles, the fights. The walls. Broken, defeated, breached. You've won.
— Jae T. Jaggart
Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
— William Wordsworth
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
— John Piper
We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.
— David Letterman
When we are filled with the Spirit of God, obeying God, in His will and quoting Scripture, Satan will be defeated.
— Billy Graham
I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect ... instead I choose Chaka Khan ... and vodka ... Bridget Jones
— Helen Fielding
Christ broke the bonds of death by His resurrection, and from that moment on, Satan was a defeated foe.
— Billy Graham
You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?
— Katie MacAlister
A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable.
— Stephanie Lahart
Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.
— Elizabeth George
The greatest war every fought, and are still fighting, where more people have been defeated and died, is the war within.
— Anthony Liccione
Oh darling, The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be defeated
Again. — Nikki Rowe
You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.
— Billy Mills
If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.
— Paul Williams
Obstacles must be overcome.Problems must be solved.
Doubt must be resisted.
Fear must be defeated. — Matshona Dhliwayo
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory. — Martin Luther King Jr.
President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.
— Pete Hegseth
I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
— Charlie Sheen
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.
— Gautama Buddha
I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.
— John Wooden
Her stillness defeated his storm.
— Chris Gardner
Losing is not the same as being defeated.
— Steve Chandler
There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators; but we must not forget that the religion is still out there.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
— Roger Crawford
They justify themselves with their inability; and the design and end of the law, as a school-master to fit them for Christ, is defeated.
— Jonathan Edwards
Beware when your enemy's too easily defeated.
— Toba Beta
It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
— Vladimir Lenin
A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.
— John Harbaugh
Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
— Carlos Castaneda
Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.
— Fred Lowe Soper
I think that we have to look at ISIS as the leading threat of an international terror network. It cannot be contained, it must be defeated.
— Hillary Clinton
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Linear's defeated form The intangible reality rise.' ~ Wanderer — Stella Coulson
It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead.
— Michael Ignatieff
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.
— Eskinder Nega
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.
— Robert Breault
You will see true character after a defeated ambition
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded. — George Watsky
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
— George Herbert Palmer
You did it, didn't you?" Baz whispers. "You defeated the Humdrum. You saved the day, you courageous fuck. You absolute nightmare.
— Rainbow Rowell
Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
— Jane Espenson
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
— Norman Vincent Peale
I never defeated a healthy opponent.
— Savielly Tartakower
There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned
— Henry Timrod
A warrior becomes experienced by being defeated; a scholar by making mistakes. Defeat and mistakes we have left in the past, he said.
— Elaine Marolakos Edelson
History is not just the lies of the victors; it is also the self-delusions of the defeated.
— Julian Barnes
Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
— William Carlos Williams
He felt empty, broken, defeated.
— Pamela Clare
I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.
— Glenda Jackson
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
— Charles Baudelaire
The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.
— David Nicholls
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
— C.L.R. James