Quotes About Defeat

#1. It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Thomas Paine

#2. And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!

Emily Dickinson

#3. Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

Newt Gingrich

#4. Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

John Adams

#5. Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn't matter if things aren't going the way you thought they would or if you're facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you're winning.

Mara Schiavocampo

#6. A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

Gerald R. Ford

#7. [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. So we face our final hours ... and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Tad Williams

#9. It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

Alan Alda

#10. Shoulders slumped in defeat, I turned to walk away. The drugstore had caved under the force of my criminal will, but the Coke machine was virtuous. Inviolate.

Laura Bickle

#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. You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

John Cassavetes

#13. You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. If Pete's (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he's a boy, my son will defeat him.

Andre Agassi

#15. The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists.

Ray Lewis

#16. My stomach knotted, the nausea so intense I began heaving on the ground. Smell, taste; all of it evil. A darkness so pure, I knew I could never defeat it. My fear strangled my light.

Angela McPherson

#17. In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Henry Miller

#18. Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

Michael Medved

#19. As I understand it, miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them. They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.

Mark Helprin

#20. 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

#21. With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

Mitsuo Fuchida

#22. Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#23. I'd drink your blood if I could and hook you into every memory inside me, every heartbreak, frame of reference, temporary triumph, petty defeat, mystic moment of surrender.

Anne Rice

#24. There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat

Haile Selassie

#25. Naturally, along the way, there are beings and forces that will challenge you. They want to try and get some of your power, take it away from you, all this nonsense, and of course, you just defeat them.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Josephus Daniels

#27. We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.

John A. Daly

#28. The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

Mercy Otis Warren

#29. Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Rupert Holmes

#30. A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#31. All good things come from love; God used the cross a symbol of His love, to paralyze and defeat all forces of evil. God is love. John 3:16

Felix Wantang

#32. In order to defeat our challengers and rise above every obstacle, we must be able to persevere.

Ellen J. Barrier

#33. Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.

Laozi

#34. Yes," he whispered harshly, "I am afraid. But I will defeat you, all the same. It is you who cannot - will not be allowed to prevail. I swear this by the living Name of the One.

D.R. Ranshaw

#35. Courage isn't being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#36. When in doubt, you face the possibility of deception.. when you are decieved, you face the possibility of diversion... when you are diverted, you face the possibility of disobedience...and these are the D's to every man's Defeat.

Hope D. Blackwell

#37. When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

Emil Cioran

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

Torii Mototada

#39. The screen blanked, then produced a book cover. The jacket image - in black-and-white - showed barking dogs surrounding a scarecrow. In the background, shoulders slumped in a posture of weariness or defeat (or both), was a hunter with a gun. The eponymous Cortland, probably.

Stephen King

#40. At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

Denis Markell

#41. It isn't defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

Napoleon Hill

#42. Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.

Nick Jonas

#43. The angry man will defeat Himself in battle As well as in life.

Tommy Lee

#44. When you walk with Jesus, defeat turns into victory.

Beth Moore

#45. You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done ... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.

Will Rogers

#46. Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?

Veronica Roth

#47. We can defeat Satan much more quickly by praising God than by worrying.

Joyce Meyer

#48. This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

Herman Gorter

#49. 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

#50. same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, "although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge," wrote Orwell, tends to be "uninterested in what happens in the real world." Nationalism

Timothy Snyder

#51. What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

Henry Waxman

#52. 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

#53. Defeat may be victory in disguise.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#54. Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#55. And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

Vince Lombardi

#56. Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

William Moulton Marston

#57. The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

Rabindranath Tagore

#58. A Saigon Proverb: Doe la chine tran, neu buon la thua. Life is a struggle in which sorrow leads to defeat.

Kim Thuy

#59. The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and surrender?

Callie Hunter

#60. War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

Sri Aurobindo

#61. Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

D.H. Lawrence

#62. Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

Santosh Kalwar

#63. We all can be defeated; to cope with this eternal fact opens great ways for the future glories!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#64. Sometimes it is necessary to celebrate life, despite being faced with defeat and death.

Jolina Petersheim

#65. I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

Suzanne Collins

#66. Defeat is real. It is also temporary. We have to understand both. Faced for what it is, absorbed and met without self-deception, defeat can offer wisdom and motivation. Begin even though you know that you will suffer failure and defeat along the way.

Eric Greitens

#67. Your problems are not there to defeat you, they are there to increase you.

Joel Osteen

#68. Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

Georgette Mosbacher

#69. When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

Viswanathan Anand

#70. Those who do not see the truth in battle march willingly to defeat.

Richard A. Knaak

#71. I look over at the Garde. They're so used to being on the run, to physical threats that they can fight and destroy. But how are they supposed to escape or defeat, something that attacks them from within?

Pittacus Lore

#72. If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

Norman Vincent Peale

#73. Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

Conrad Black

#74. Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

Jack Nicklaus

#75. In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

George W. Bush

#76. The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

Chris Oyakhilome

#77. 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

#78. Their heart grew cold
they let their wings down

Sappho

#79. A giver will never suffer a defeat.

Sunday Adelaja

#80. Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

Sun Tzu

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Rand Paul

#83. Only the vanquished remember history.

Marshall McLuhan

#84. I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

Robert Wyatt

#85. He painted a rosy picture of prewar Germany in contrast to its current "disgrace and defeat."8 He made complicated things simple. "Political agitation must be primitive," he said.9

Peter Ross Range

#86. We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.

James Dillet Freeman

#87. You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

Charles Spurgeon

#88. War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Bruce Jackson

#89. To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

Greg Bear

#90. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#91. Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.

Che Guevara

#92. You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

Roger Kahn

#93. If hope is a feeling that can defeat fear,
then at that time I walked uphill through a bed of snow, my tracks were of joyful determination.

Angelica Hopes

#94. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Orison Swett Marden

#95. To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

William Arthur Ward

#96. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#97. I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

Orson Scott Card

#98. Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.

Mike Krzyzewski

#99. 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

#100. Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

Alison Lurie