Overcoming Defeat Quotes

#1. My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.

Alonzo Mourning

#2. Problems, obstacles and difficulties are in themselves not a sufficient reason for a person to suffer defeat. It is possible to overcome any obstacle

Sunday Adelaja

#3. The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.

Werner Herzog

#4. I won't quit my day job. I like restaurants. I don't do a lot of television, either, even though people come to me with projects all the time. I have to spend time in the kitchen.

Wolfgang Puck

#5. If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Bill Gates

#6. It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure.

Richard House

#7. Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

Sam Storms

#8. Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Baruch Spinoza

#9. I think I understand what Damien needs. Not the pain, but the control.

J. Kenner

#10. Justice doesn't talk. It sings!

Christina L. Barr

#11. He who cannot overcome his own demons could never defeat another

Torii Mototada

#12. Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

Henry John Stephen Smith

#13. I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

Moses Malone

#14. These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

Michael Cunningham

#15. Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Neil Gaiman

#16. The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

Jim Palmer

#17. The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

Pope Francis

#18. I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house.

Tim Hecker

#19. Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity."
"FYI, philosophy bores me."
"Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

J.R. Ward