Top 100 No Defeat Quotes
#1. There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.
Frank C. Laubach
#2. The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow.
Robert Frost
#4. Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#5. Oh what force on earth could be weaker than the feeble strength of one" like me remembering the way it could have been. Help me with this barricade. No surrender. No defeat. A spectre's haunting Albert Street. I am your pamphleteer.
John K. Samson
#6. LEXI: I feel like I belong here. Hell, maybe I always did belong, and I just needed to leave to see how good I had it. This place is home, and I love my job.......Maybe that means the big city defeated me.....
RYDER:Nah, you just figured out what you want. There's no defeat in that.
T.S. Joyce
#7. No defeat, no surrender
Ain't no pockets in a shroud
There is nothing so sure in life as death and taxes
Ninette Kelly
#9. No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.
Leszek Kolakowski
#10. And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!
Emily Dickinson
#11. Conquest by force is not sanctioned by God. The Americans have no right to be here. We will defeat them because we believe that this land they usurp is ours; God created it for us. The whole history of mankind has shown how faith endures while steel rusts.
-Istak
F. Sionil Jose
#12. 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
#13. Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.
Georgi Plekhanov
#14. It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.
Martin Seligman
#15. There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success.
Jocelyn Murray
#16. It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."
Joel Osteen
#17. No one can ever win by defeating someone; you only win by letting someone win.
Debasish Mridha
#18. There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
Fay Weldon
#19. Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God knows, has no honor in it. But exile, for no other motive than ease - that would be to give up all hope of honor. The last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#20. We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
Margaret J. Wheatley
#21. We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.
Paul Farmer
#22. There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
Tony Benn
#23. All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments.
Meera Uberoi
#24. We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
George Soros
#25. In the end, Tuesday's vote represented a repudiation of virtually every notion Democrats embraced in recent weeks as they tried to disregard the growing evidence that they were headed for a historic defeat. Now, the vote is in, and the voters' message can no longer be discounted.
Byron York
#26. For Tempus ... was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves ...
Janet Morris
#27. I think I really believed my childish thoughts back then. Using the determination of the poor, the childish thought that I can do it if I tried with all my might. But in reality ... I never did get to defeat him. No. I couldn't beat him.
Kim Young-kwang
#28. The biggest challenge in life, from what I came to understand, comes from people trying to stop us. Apart from that, there's no challenge greater enough to defeat an inspired person.
Daniel Marques
#29. In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.
Paulo Coelho
#30. No Senior military commander can for years on end expect his soldiers to lay down their lives for victory and then precipitate defeat by his own hand.
Erich Von Manstein
#31. The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.
Paul David Tripp
#32. Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
Jared Diamond
#33. Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
Margaret Drabble
#34. Yes, of course Yahweh could defeat all of Judah's enemies." "Then why didn't He, Grandpa?" Zechariah's face looked sad as he shook his head. "Because our nation no longer believes in Him ... and so no one bothered to ask Him to.
Lynn Austin
#35. Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
#37. But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had no inkling of their crushing defeat.
Stanislaw Lem
#38. Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.
Bruce Lee
#39. Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to
prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get,
that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian
Jiu-jitsu is.
Saulo Ribeiro
#40. I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.
George S. Patton
#41. As long as the enemy is not defeated, he may defeat me; then I shall be no longer my own master; he will dictate the law to me as I did to him.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#42. There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Cesar Chavez
#43. Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.
Cote De Pablo
#44. Never admit defeat, Lexie. No matter the situation. And no matter what resources you have to call upon to do it.
Kristen Ashley
#45. It is incredible what a pronounced hero can get away with and what can be accredited to him.
There were no inconvenient questions asked of Robin because everyone preferred to believe that heroes defeat villains and that there were distinguishable traits that could easily tell the two apart.
Arianna Alexsandra Collins
#46. There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Ann Landers
#47. It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.
Margaret Sanger
#48. God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels. In terms of worldly affairs, America is very strong. Even if it were twice as strong or twice that, it could not be strong enough to defeat us. We are confident that no one can harm us if God is with us.
Mohammed Omar
#49. No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#50. Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
Bill Moyers
#51. The gay movement is an evil institution that's goal is to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity in which there's no restrictions on sexual conduct except the principle of mutual choice.
Scott Lively
#52. Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be conquered, victory or defeat. Anything less is to be forgotten to history.
Jeffrey Fry
#53. At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.
Padma Lakshmi
#54. There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
Edward Teller
#55. Defeated? Learn from it. Move forward. You're stronger now. Reach out for help. No shame, only learning. Seek out those you can learn from.
Waylon H. Lewis
#56. Every happiness is a bright ray between shadows, every gaiety bracketed by grief. There is no birth that does not recall a death, no victory but brings to mind a defeat.
Geraldine Brooks
#57. I am the steel no enemy can shatter'
I am the magic no dark power can defeat.
I am the rock upon which evil breaks like waves.
I am Fey,warrior of honor, champion of Light.'
the warrior's creed
C.L. Wilson
#59. How can one call that a defeat? There is no such thing.
Walter Russell
#60. There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.
Darrell Royal
#61. Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.
Bill Maher
#62. Yet there's no one to beat you | No one t' defeat you | 'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad
Bob Dylan
#63. Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.
Nick Vujicic
#64. No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.
Thomas Ligotti
#65. No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.
No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.
How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win.
Lao-Tzu
#66. I've always been proud of you, except when you retreat, and give in to your suffering. I haven't been so proud when you do that. But you always come back. No matter how dreadful the defeat, you come back.
Anne Rice
#67. There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Tony Blair
#68. The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
#69. We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.
Douglas MacArthur
#70. There is no love without desire, diffidence, defeat.
Andre Aciman
#71. Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#72. No matter how strong you are, there is always another power which can defeat you easily!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. The only way to truly be protected at all times is to claim your personal power with the highest code of ethics and responsibility. If you are centered in this type of power, the power of the universe supports you, and no one and nothing can defeat you.
Christopher Penczak
#74. There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.
Dan Gable
#75. Some who will read this, will believe that no one can think and grow rich. They cannot think in terms of riches, because their thought habits have been steeped in poverty, want, misery, failure, and defeat.
Napoleon Hill
#76. I will take a backseat to no one in keeping America safe. I have a very clear set of proposals about how we defeat ISIS.
Hillary Clinton
#77. It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.
Solange Nicole
#78. Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.
Carol P. Christ
#79. No truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
Winifred Holtby
#80. No one is immune from failure. All have tasted the bitterness of defeat and disappointment. A warrior must not dwell on that failure, but must learn from it and continue on. But
Timothy Zahn
#81. We were losers who talked a winning game. No wonder honesty came to mean for my sister saying only the most damaging things against herself. If she began by admitting defeat, then something was possible: sincerity, perhaps, or at least the avoidance of appearing ludicrous.
Edmund White
#82. Unconditional love is something people achieve once they've given themselves over completely to someone. Once they've decided that no matter what the other person does, they will always love them.
Sarah Noffke
#83. Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
Bruce Lee
#84. To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
Thomas Carlyle
#85. Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.
Patricia Briggs
#86. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt us - to convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on earth except in love.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#88. To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.
Preston Morgan
#89. Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
Francis Quarles
#90. I would say that I was without faith, but no one is truly faithless; they just have faith in the wrong things: fear and defeat.
Richard Paul Evans
#91. I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
Yukio Mishima
#92. The abbess may well try and force me to return to the convent, silent and in disgrace, but I will not go back. Not like this. Indeed, I can see no way I can ever return to the convent, for the abbess will not let me return in victory, and I refuse to do so in defeat.
Robin LaFevers
#93. I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.
Burning Spear
#94. You can always tell when an old person has no idea what you are talking about, because they mess up the wording almost as if they're trying to defeat the thing you are discussing by refusing to name it correctly.
Matthew Quick
#95. The individual is a nut so impossible to crack that no theoretic tooth will be able to manage it. And so nothing will be able to justify your defeat, bumblers!
Witold Gombrowicz
#96. There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not.
J.W. Lord
#97. Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#98. No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.
Anderson Silva
#99. You shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,
love means eventual pain
victory means eventual defeat
grace means eventual slovenliness,
there's no way
out ... you see, you
understand?
Charles Bukowski
#100. I don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.
Jay E. Adams
