Defeated Man Quotes

#1. 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

#2. There was a deep, sad wound in him, because he was a defeated man,

Salman Rushdie

#3. 1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#4. The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done ... But in his heart of hearts he knows that he is a defeated man and that his cynicism is merely an expression of the fact that he has lost courage and is beaten.

George Edgar Vincent

#5. Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Bruce Lee

#6. A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.

Milan Kundera

#7. The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#8. 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

#9. Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

William Wordsworth

#10. But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

Carlos Castaneda

#12. A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

Jan Smuts

#13. But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

Albert Camus

#14. Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

William Carlos Williams

#15. Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

William Carlos Williams

#16. I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back.

Philippa Gregory

#17. A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Sallust

#18. You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war.

Frank Herbert

#19. [Anger] gave him the soul to keep fighting no matter how many times the world seemed bent on destroying him. He may be a broken young man, but he would never be a defeated one

Hannah Heath

#20. The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.

Steven Biko

#21. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

Walker Percy

#22. Mistakes are the doors of discovery", by James Joyce. A similar one: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" by Ernest Hemingway. Both remind me that our biggest mistakes are the experiences we learn the most from. Hope to improve gives everyone the desire to live the next day, doesn't it?

Robert Pattinson

#23. No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

#24. Man is often not defeated by the storm itself, but by his incapacity to handle the storm!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. 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

#26. The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

Gloria Steinem

#27. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

Douglas MacArthur

#28. Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.

Robert E.Lee

#29. A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

Woodrow Wilson

#30. Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Richard M. Nixon

#31. It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself. How mankind hates himself.

John Steinbeck

#32. When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible. Even with complete and thorough study there is always the possibility of being defeated and although one may be expert in a particular form, mastery is something a man never stops seeking to attain.

Miyamoto Musashi

#34. Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#35. A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Richard M. Nixon

#36. Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

Carlos Castaneda

#37. A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

John Harbaugh

#38. Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Muhammad Ali

#39. No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#40. No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

Samuel Johnson

#41. The average man is either victorious or defeated and, depending on that, he becomes a persecutor or a victim. These two conditions are prevalent as long as one does not see. Seeing dispels the illusion of victory, or defeat, or suffering.

Carlos Castaneda

#42. 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

#43. It is enough", this malicious man tells us, "to extinguish the line of the defeated prince." Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?

Frederick The Great

#44. His Name will never fall. His Name will never be defeated. His Name will never be reduced to rubble. A tower that's stronger than any man-made fortress and large enough to see from a distance, even if we've lost our way.

Liz Curtis Higgs