Conquering Defeat Quotes

#1. I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

Jonathan Winters

#2. Aquaman is one of the greatest characters at DC Comics and one of my favorites.

Geoff Johns

#3. Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

Lindsay Davenport

#4. [On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

Nina Jacobson

#5. Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

Howard Dean

#6. Its Seventh Commandment, italicized by the authors, stated: Battles are beyond everything else struggles of morale. Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.

Seth Adam Smith

#8. Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.

David J. Schwartz

#9. The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

Edith Hamilton

#10. I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

Henri Nouwen

#11. Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do what
Alpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.

Luke Rhinehart

#12. I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

T.I.

#13. I've already done everything there is to do. Now it's just a matter of doing what I love to do.

Anderson Silva

#14. Gibson Goode to Archy: You're just being stubborn now. Stubbornness in the service of a mistaken notion is a vanity and a sin.

Michael Chabon

#15. The hawk with talent hides its talons.

Barry Eisler

#16. How am I going to tell the kids? How do I tell the man that I love, the man that I swore I'd grow old with that we won't have that happy ending that he and I have worked so hard for? How do I say goodbye to all of you? How do I let go?

Nicole Ireland