Defeat Is A State Of Mind Quotes

#1. Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Bruce Lee

#2. The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out

Robert Jordan

#3. There existed something in this world that bound a mage tighter than a blood oath: love. Love was the ultimate chain, the ultimate whip, and the ultimate slave driver.

Sherry Thomas

#4. Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!

Richard Matheson

#5. The predator in me likes that. Her fear, her reluctance - they add a certain edge to the whole thing. It makes it that much sweeter to possess her, to feel her curled up in my arms every night.

Anna Zaires

#6. She was insane, and this was Janie. This was the Janie who loved fire and carried rocks. This was the Janie Vivian who trusted rarely but deeply, and hoped with everything she was. This was the Janie Vivian, who I had loved with every atom in every cell in my body before memory was relevant.

Amy Zhang

#7. I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness ... , but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference ... that was only ... pierced when creative desire enveloped me like ether.

Hermann Hesse

#8. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Alan Lightman

#9. Everyone must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

Henry Adams

#10. You don't get a mix of ovals and road/street course racing with this level of competition and speed anywhere other than Indy Car, and I think that's why it has remained a popular choice for so many young drivers.

Charlie Kimball

#11. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.

Tucker Elliot

#12. Mistaking obsession for love is one of the greatest mistakes you'll every make

Karina Halle

#13. Home is where somebody notices your absence.

Aleksandar Hemon

#14. Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#15. He wonders whether this very idea of loneliness is something he would feel at all had he not been awakened to the fact that he should be feeling lonely,

Hanya Yanagihara