Quotes About Defeat Them

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Georgette Mosbacher

#4. That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside."
"Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.

Derek Landy

#5. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.'
- Chang Bibi to Anita

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.

Naguib Mahfouz

#7. I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

Heath Ledger

#8. [Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Richard Corliss

#9. I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

Freddie Gibbs

#10. But I don't panic. I don't bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It isn't fear that will defeat them. Not fear or faith or hope or even love, but rage.

Rick Yancey

#11. Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them ... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.

Barack Obama

#12. Defeating ISIS. If we do not defeat them abroad, we will be facing more and more of a threat at home. This does not require an occupation or an enduring ground operation.

Lee Zeldin

#13. Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

Democritus

#14. I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?

Toby Jones

#15. If you want to defeat a country, defeat it with your ideas! If you want to defeat your enemies, defeat them with your ideas! Let your only sword and gun be your sharp and powerful ideas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

Paul Wolfowitz

#17. As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.

Jane Rule

#18. When I write I face my demons, and defeat them.

Jackie G. Mills

#19. Be confident when facing your enemies; be humble when you defeat them. Break records, then shatter them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. The point is to face the fears that are going to be thrown at you, face them, and defeat them because the greatest fears are the ones your mind creates. Those are the only fears that can truly have power over you. Don't let them.

Quinn Loftis

#21. But such monsters as sphinxes bring forth the necessary heroes to defeat them, and because such heroes make civilization by the example of monster-taming, without the former there would be no civilization at all.

David D. Gilmore

#22. We will get them stuck in the mud and we will certainly defeat them.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#23. 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

#24. To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

Sun Tzu

#25. Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.

Robert Greene

#26. There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.

George W. Bush

#27. Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

Eric S. Raymond

#28. Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita

Laurell K. Hamilton

#29. I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

Jose Rizal

#30. According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.

Lindsey Graham

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. We all know them - the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

Robert Breault

#36. Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time ... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

Stonewall Jackson

#37. KSM insisted that the brothers eventually will defeat the United States because Americans don't have the will or stomach to do what must be done to stop them.

James E. Mitchell

#38. There is only one way this can end: with the kind of defeat that makes a people feel that their preachers have lied to them, their leaders have deserted them, that the world is against them and that God is dead.

Ken MacLeod

#39. In Lisbon, a street cry gloated over the Spanish defeat: Which ships got home? The ones the English missed. And where are the rest? The waves will tell you. What happened to them? It is said they are lost. Do we know their names? They know them in London. Oh,

Margaret George

#40. Not being well-prepared will lead to certain defeat! These people need to hear certain things for you to convince them to vote for you.

Brad McKinniss

#41. We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go!

Edward I Of England

#42. The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Joel Osteen

#43. I would argue it should be a policy to defeat ISIS where they are, where they exist and prevent them from coming into the United States.

Michael McCaul

#44. Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

Alexander The Great

#45. Normally ghosts didn't scare him. (Assuming, of course, Gaea hadn't encased them in shells of stone and turned them into killing machines. That had been a new one for him.)

Rick Riordan

#46. And in the sting and misery of his defeat, he began to chant loudly and defiantly the hymn of his threatened idol:
Sredni Vashtar went forth,
His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.
His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death.
Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful.

Saki

#47. As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

Mohammed Omar

#48. By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine
and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness

Pablo Neruda

#49. Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up ... Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break. Ecclesiastes 4:9 (TEV)

Rick Warren

#50. Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and unless we give them both - and we can if we try - we have failed.

Russ Feingold

#51. Were the Romans Christians?" I asked him, remembering my curiosity at the Roman farm. "Not always," Ravn said. "They had their own gods once, but they gave them up to become Christians and after that they knew nothing but defeat.

Bernard Cornwell

#52. War, in some ways, is merciful to men. It makes them heroes if they are the victors. If they are the vanquished - they do not live to see their homes taken, their wives widowed. But if you are a woman - you must live through defeat...

Samhita Arni

#53. I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

Roy Cohn

#54. Positive people on the other had are not those who deny what is going on around them for some pie-in-the-sky type of thinking. Positive people are very award of the problems, disasters and difficulties that are happening all around them. What they do not do is give into defeat.

John Patrick Hickey

#55. A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.

Atul Gawande

#56. Comeback stories are popular because there is truth in them. It is a morality tale. The good guy has to win. The underdog has to defeat the big bad wolf. David beat Goliath did he not? The bad guy has to lose. That is how it works.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#57. History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future ... It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.

Thomas Jefferson

#58. No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

Thomas Ligotti

#59. The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

Jack Weatherford

#60. Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from them, make more mistakes and learn anew. They must taste defeat as well as success, and discover how to live with each. Time and action are the teachers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#61. Fight the Fight and Never Accept Defeat...
Life is like a three minute round. Step into that ring, feel the adrenaline,throw your punches and take them, respect your opposition; and win or lose, remember you went in fighting and came out a winner!

Carol Gambill

#62. I've often observed that men and women who were young children during these years [of defeat in war] have a certain seriousness about them; there was too little laughter in their childhoods.

Arthur Golden

#63. India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.

William Dalrymple

#64. The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#65. I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.

Trip Hawkins

#66. Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we're going to defeat you and make it impossible.

Newt Gingrich

#67. 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

#68. To defeat Islamic extremist terrorism, we must put them on defense. If they are at war against us - which they have declared - we must commit ourselves to unconditional victory against them.

Rudy Giuliani

#69. ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining this great apocalyptic movement that is going to defeat the West.

Marco Rubio

#70. Our country doesn't win anymore. We don't win on trade. We don't win on the military. We can't defeat ISIS. We're not taking care of our great people, the veterans. We're not taking care of them.

Donald Trump

#71. You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.

Seth Adam Smith

#72. Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.

Rick Warren

#73. You only defeat your demons by facing them.

Serena Grey

#74. 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

#75. I've watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesn't threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core.

Jeaniene Frost

#76. You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

Merlin Olsen

#77. Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."

Desmond Tutu

#78. To defeat Fortune, men must anticipate such evils before they arise, and take prudent steps to avoid them. When the waters have already risen, it is too late to build dikes and embankments.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#79. When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.

Roselyn Sanchez

#80. She wore defeat like a piece of cheap jewelry. "Worshiping them. Anointing them with oil, Mrs. Gervais," I said.

Pat Conroy

#81. Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Orson Welles

#82. My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.

Roberto Cavalli

#83. What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Jimmy Wales

#84. Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

John Wooden

#85. You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. Slay the dragon - though I really think dragons get a bad rap - kiss the princess, or the frog, defeat the bad witch.

Nora Roberts

#86. The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?

Elisabeth Elliot

#87. We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

Marsha Blackburn

#88. Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves? ... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.

Kate Elliott

#89. Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do
perfectly well.

Colin Wilson

#90. Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#91. A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

Abigail Adams

#92. My experience of the past several years does not lend itself to the belief that good can or will defeat evil. This is not a pessimistic view, but simply an observation of facts as I have experienced them.

Scott Frost

#93. Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

Benjamin Zander

#94. We're always our own villains in the end. Which makes them easy to defeat, once we're ready to admit we were the only ones in our own way.

Heidi Cullinan

#95. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

Karl Jaspers

#96. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

Rand Paul

#97. This is an opportunity for failure as much as it is one to succeed. Do not block out the voices of opposition, study them and defeat their words and prejudices through brilliant action.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#98. A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#99. Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

Anthony Wayne

#100. More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat ...

Saul Bellow