Against Defeat Quotes

#1. The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

Sun Tzu

#2. Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

Robert Henri

#3. The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

Sun Tzu

#4. I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.

Eric Cantona

#5. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the
opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Sun Tzu

#6. The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#7. According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.

Lindsey Graham

#8. She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

Anthony Marra

#9. Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Jay Samit

#11. In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#12. Gabriel reclined against the banquette and regarded her with a slow and sinuous smile. "That would rather defeat the purpose of watching, don't you think?

Sylvain Reynard

#13. Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.

Tamara Feldman

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

William J. Clinton

#15. As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Charles B. Rangel

#16. Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

Stefan Zweig

#17. Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.

Rick Riordan

#18. You will know him by the blade he carries and the Dark-born skill with which he wields it, for none who know the love of the Father may defeat the Darkblade, yet all must stand against him.

Anthony Ryan

#19. Darkness has conquered the day; the arms of the night slapped the living daylight off the day.Gripping. Killing. Totally overwhelming. The taste of darkness bitters my mouth
as I struggled against unnumbered foes.

Chika Onyenezi

#20. We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

George William Russell

#21. Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Walter Lord

#22. The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

Joe Henderson

#23. Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.

Yasser Arafat

#24. There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.

George W. Bush

#25. Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

Narendra Modi

#26. Satan knows, if you are against YOURSELF you will never fulfill your destiny. :(

Joel Osteen

#27. Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

Glenn Beck

#28. A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

Gerald R. Ford

#29. [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#30. I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

Bill Ayers

#31. Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get ... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

John Abizaid

#32. Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#33. I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.

Alberto Moravia

#34. I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.

Mihail Sebastian

#35. A warrior doesn't focus on the odds stacked against her. She focuses on her heart, on her will to face the evil in her world and defeat it, and then she finds a way to do it. Lorelai

C.J. Redwine

#36. The I feel a contentment in defeat, I reflected, simply because defeat has come, because it is infinitely connected to all the acts that are, that were, and that shall be, because to censure or deplore a single real act is to blaspheme against the universe.

Jorge Luis Borges

#37. There is only one way this can end: with the kind of defeat that makes a people feel that their preachers have lied to them, their leaders have deserted them, that the world is against them and that God is dead.

Ken MacLeod

#38. The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

Erich Fromm

#39. I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting the federal legislature, would fail either to detect or to defeat a conspiracy of the latter against the liberties of their common constituencies.

James Madison

#40. Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

Bill Moyers

#41. Our allies in the Middle East know that the Islamic State is their fight - and they have asked for very specific things to help push back against ISIL.We must give our allies the help they need to confront and defeat this evil.

Carly Fiorina

#42. Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

Kate Smith

#43. 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?

Toby Jones

#44. To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#45. If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#46. Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world.

Kenny Marchant

#47. We were losers who talked a winning game. No wonder honesty came to mean for my sister saying only the most damaging things against herself. If she began by admitting defeat, then something was possible: sincerity, perhaps, or at least the avoidance of appearing ludicrous.

Edmund White

#48. To defeat Islamic extremist terrorism, we must put them on defense. If they are at war against us - which they have declared - we must commit ourselves to unconditional victory against them.

Rudy Giuliani