Quotes About Accepting Defeat

#1. I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

John W. Thompson

#2. When others, out of Jealousy,
Mistreat me with abuse, slander, and so on,
I will practice accepting defeat
And offering the victory to them.

Christopher Titmuss

#3. Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Jay Samit

#4. My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

Uzo Aduba

#5. The "Warrior Ethos" emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a "guardian of freedom and the American way of life.

Dan Smee

#6. Accepting defeat is not wisdom.

T.K. Kiser

#7. The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

Renata Adler

#8. I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.

Mort Sahl

#9. I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

Janos Kadar

#10. You can keep waiting for somebody else to define you, or give you your place in the world, or you can decide that you're not just somebody's broken puppet anymore. Choose.

David Fury

#11. And the boy whose temper seemed tethered to the air itself ... they didn't know what to make of him.

Victoria Schwab

#12. Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

Jonathan Kozol

#13. Christ has redeemed the cultural agents, thus transforming culture also.

Henry R. Van Til

#14. If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It's not fully appreciated as such.

Tom Vilsack

#15. If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

#16. Knowing your inner voice and how you will confront it, is like talking to yourself in front of the mirror and appreciate it.

EllieCue

#17. We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

David Beckham

#18. I don't think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope

Adrienne Rich

#19. You're only a mouse if you let them make you one.

Christina Henry

#20. I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Phil Gramm

#21. There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Fay Weldon

#22. It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory.

Andre Bramble

#23. Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

John C. Maxwell

#24. I fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows

E. E. Cummings