Best Defeat Quotes

#1. We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

James Dickey

#2. You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

Merlin Olsen

#3. Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed.

Clive Barker

#4. Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.

William Strunk Jr.

#5. Humans best survive when they are given a purpose; a common enemy to defeat, revenge to wreak or a dream to cling to.

Bryce Courtenay

#6. You can't allow the false ideas of defeat to discourage you. Every day you should feel encouraged to do your best, encouraged to be your best, and encouraged to work towards your best.

Courtney Brooks

#7. 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

#8. Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges
battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

Billy Graham

#9. The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope
an ideology of hate
excuse me
with an ideology of hope.

George W. Bush

#10. To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Plato

#11. The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,

Eddie McGuire

#12. Dear 2016,

If I has any defeats in your term, I am glad they were on my terms!

Best,
The Defeated Winner

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#13. The best way to compete is to get defeat.

Santosh Kalwar

#14. Make peace with the fear of defeat ... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

Brian Stann

#15. In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

Eric Liddell

#16. There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Saul Bellow

#17. Yeah, you do. Because right now, I'm your best hope to defeat Byzamoth. So if you don't want to spend eternity bent over and holding your ankles for him, you'll back the fuck off.


~Wraith

Larissa Ione

#18. Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

Nelson Mandela

#19. Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today

Maxwell Maltz

#20. If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

Dirk Nowitzki

#21. 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

#22. There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Timothy Noah

#23. When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

Viswanathan Anand

#24. After a Great Victory.-The best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. " Why should I not be worsted for once ? " he says to himself, " I am now rich enough to stand it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.

Gail Sheehy

#26. In battle, it is not the strongest or the bravest or those with the greater numbers who win. Victory belongs to the side that best understands the price of defeat.

Shatrujeet Nath

#27. European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.

Saladin

#28. Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#29. Best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Kate Smith

#31. You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you will suffer defeat. But the mark of any individual is to recover from defeat and disappointment and go on and give it his best shot.

Richard M. Nixon

#32. same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, "although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge," wrote Orwell, tends to be "uninterested in what happens in the real world." Nationalism

Timothy Snyder

#33. The person who has a clear, compelling, and white-hot burning why will always defeat even the best of the best at doing the how.

Darren Hardy

#34. The reality is, if you're going to have a defeat on the road, Week 1 is probably the best time to have it.

Mike McCarthy

#35. But on the day after a defeat, the men who matter are the leaders. Anyone can lead men after a victory. Only the best can lead after a defeat.

Christian Cameron

#36. Kira had a warrior's spirit inside her sleek, feminine frame, for true valor was best revealed when defeat was inevitable.

Jeaniene Frost

#37. The best way to defeat yourself is by challenging obstacles

Thabiso Monkoe

#38. Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.

John Wooden

#39. Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges.

Paulo Coelho

#40. There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Plato

#41. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Henry Miller