Top 100 Defeated Quotes
#1. I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.
Ali Sina
#2. A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.
Nostradamus
#3. The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that obliterates both.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#5. You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't create us to be defeated.
Shannon L. Alder
#6. To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat- and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going.
Upton Sinclair
#7. You will have to reconcile yourself, as I do, as Isabel does, to being the defeated.
Philippa Gregory
#8. If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds
Sufyan Al-Thawri
#9. [Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.
Chuck Smith
#10. Like fore, you will blaze through the forest ... but beware - even the most powerful flames can be defeated by water.
Erin Hunter
#11. The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without
letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.
Gustav Mahler
#12. You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
Maya Angelou
#13. This is God's promise to us. In Christ, the not-rightness of the world is already defeated. Jesus's cry of "it is finished" from the cross was true and real. When things aren't all right now, take comfort in the fact that they will be, forever.
Tullian Tchividjian
#14. Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
Charles Caleb Colton
#15. The most important are the eyes. In a fight if you look down out of fear you'll certainly be defeated
Mas Oyama
#16. The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
Confucius
#17. There's always hope, Apostolos. Of all men, you know that. It's only when you stop trying to affect the outcome of your life that you're truly defeated. What will come will come. It's how we deal with the shit in between that shapes us. (Savitar)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. For a moment, she let herself be defeated, wished herself not exactly annihilation but into a temporary absense, into being nowhere and no one just for a little while.
Sue Saliba
#19. When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?.
Brad Davis
#20. The maximalist dreamers of this epoch, the Left Bolshevik (Vpered) group led by the philosopher of proletarian culture, Aleksandr Bogdanov, were effectively defeated by the hardheaded "centrist" Leninists by 1912.
Michael David-Fox
#21. Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.
John Howard Yoder
#22. There is no response to stubbornly by many posed the question of the meaning of expeditions in the high mountains. I've never felt the need for such a definition. I walked to mountains and defeated them. That's all.
Jerzy Kukuczka
#23. It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated ... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
#24. Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
Robert Collier
#25. How noble. Oh we would fell many ... -you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the end. They are too numerous ... We cannot defeat them, only be defeated. - Saphira
Christopher Paolini
#26. Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.
Norman Vincent Peale
#27. Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
Phyllis McGinley
#28. We need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our party, we have repeatedly defeated the government over its attacks on living standards.
Wes Streeting
#29. There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you're entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality ... But that's something we'll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true.
Tsugumi Ohba
#30. We defeated the Dark Fae King. We can cope with one precocious child.
Thea Harrison
#31. My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
Steve Maraboli
#32. What was to fear from a foe that could be defeated by a few potholes and the heat of the sun?
Esther Spurrill Jones
#33. I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.
Melody Carlson
#34. Look in his eyes. He has died a thousand times these last moments...You defeated him utterly the moment you saw fear in his eyes. All else is redundancy.
Nathan Long
#35. I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated
Emmitt Smith
#36. Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.
Storm Jameson
#37. Kristian, if you don't love me now, no one ever will. This is it; you are the only person that knows I'm here. If you move on, there is no one else." She sounds defeated.
"I know," I say softly. And that's exactly why I won't, I can't, move on.
Dannielle Wicks
#38. I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#39. I feel just, you know, defeated.
Nic Sheff
#40. I cannot be defeated, because you are not my opponent. I cannot lose, because I am not fighting. And in the end, all I have to do to win is honor the path I have chosen and honor yours, too.
James A. Owen
#41. I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.
Mitt Romney
#42. 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
#43. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
Banana Yoshimoto
#44. In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
Alain Badiou
#45. What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things
Rainer Maria Rilke
#46. American women are evolving backward
becoming more focused on their looks than ever. Feminism has been defeated by narcissism.
Maureen Dowd
#47. The strongest people are people who faced the toughest situations in life. People who are defeated by the toughest battles are stronger than those who have won by using the escape route!
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. An enemy is defeated by keeping quite, a demon by a prayer.
Andries Kumalo
#49. Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
Patti Smith
#50. 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
#51. A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself
Jan Smuts
#52. It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
Baden Powell De Aquino
#53. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
Carlos Castaneda
#54. Autumn is the time of balance and of
sacrifice, a time when the light is defeated by darkness, a time
when night takes over and brings the coming winter. The
ancient wisdom says that those who long for light must face
their inner darkness and overcome it.
Tony Riches
#55. To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. Sometimes those who were defeated have made as great a contribution to the ultimate result as the victors.
Anonymous
#57. Yes, Satan is real, but so is Christ, and someday Satan will be defeated and Christ will rule forever. Don't be deceived, but open your heart and mind to Jesus Christ, and put your life into His hands.
Billy Graham
#58. Shane Douglas defeated Pit Bull Two in a match so dull, it was soul-destroying.
Findlay Martin
#59. Let him talk," said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. "Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.
Edgar Allan Poe
#61. Russia and China have become two great allies. They'd never be divided as they were during the Cold War Days. Russia and China together cannot be defeated: militarily, economically or morally.
Andre Vltchek
#62. In life, defeats are inevitable, but never feel defeated.
Debasish Mridha
#63. If the party of gloom is ever to regain its footing, it will have to start by understanding that those who defeated them are not a bunch of ignorant yahoos looking forward to Armageddon.
Mona Charen
#64. if you ever feel useless and defeated milly... just remember that you were once the fastest little spermie out of millions
H.J. Bellus
#65. The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.
David Nicholls
#66. If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
Alvin Toffler
#67. If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I?
Nobody but a defeated, deflated, pathetic testimony to a wrong way of living.
Erich Fromm
#68. Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while trading pats on the back and placing flowers on graves.
Kristina McMorris
#69. He had been defeated by that which he had sought to destroy.
Richard Wright
#70. If our devotion is to the cause of humanity, we will be quickly defeated and broken-hearted, since we will often be confronted with a great deal of ingratitude from other people. But if we are motivated by our love for God, no amount of ingratitude will be able to hinder us from serving one another.
Oswald Chambers
#71. If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election
Len McCluskey
#72. We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.
Maya Angelou
#73. Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.
Rafael Yglesias
#74. Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined
sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured
so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
Agatha Christie
#75. There was a deep, sad wound in him, because he was a defeated man,
Salman Rushdie
#76. We don't escape our pasts, you know," Madd said. He sounded defeated. "Never. We can never escape what we are."
"Maybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.
Tali Spencer
#77. If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.
Ilana Mercer
#78. I'm not yet defeated, just waiting for my next turn to throw the dice again.
Neetesh Dixit
#79. But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway,
#80. If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart, looking for symbols like The Conch or The Whale, which seemed to have mythic proportions.
L.L. Barkat
#81. History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.
Julian Barnes
#82. They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable they were of breaking it.
Albert Camus
#83. Because if I see you defeated, then I think I will see Alban defeated, and if that happens, none of us can go on. To guard you is to guard the heart of this land of ours.
Juliet Marillier
#84. The individual in the framework and in the service of his race, the race in the framework and in the service of God and of the laws of the divinity: those who will understand these things will win even though they are alone. Those who will not understand will be defeated.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
#85. Flurries of snow obscured the view through the windows, but they were halfhearted and ultimately inconsequential, like the parting shots of a defeated army. Angel
John Connolly
#86. The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.
Jack Johnson
#87. They were not victors, he and his kind, not in any way, they were the defeated still, for they had become like their betters.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#88. Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.
Morihei Ueshiba
#90. Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.
Francine Rivers
#91. One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.
Robert Breault
#92. Even with this disaster I had dragged us all into, she was still proud to be my mother. It occurred to me that I had never seen my mother defeated, even when life presented difficulties and disappointments. I hoped that our resemblance extended beyond our blue eyes.
Piper Kerman
#93. I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.
Woodrow Wilson
#94. In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just like the story of David and Goliath and David's friend, the Stealth Bomber.
Tina Fey
#95. could damn well die in this cursed storage unit, but I sure as shit refused to be defeated by a condiment, especially one I didn't like.
Anne McAneny
#96. Dear 2016,
If I had any defeats in your team, I am glad they were on my terms.
Love,
Defeated Winner
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#97. Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.
John Masefield
#98. But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are 'they?'"
"I don't know. Just people."
"That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?
John Connolly
#99. It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.
Henry A. Kissinger
#100. It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.
Paulo Coelho
