Top 100 Quotes About Defeat
#1. When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Paulo Coelho
#2. When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Queen Elizabeth II
#3. Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.
Pope Francis
#4. Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
#5. One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.
Beth Moore
#6. Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
Napoleon Hill
#7. We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.
Thelma Drake
#8. When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That's why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint.
Joyce Meyer
#9. I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
Dennis Miller
#10. 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
#11. The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew Carnegie
#12. My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.
Tim Howard
#13. I'll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were no more than beggars with dreams, thrown in with the anonymous throng of those who didn't have strength enough to conquer nor renunciation enough to conquer by not competing.
Fernando Pessoa
#14. If a human female was going to defeat a male alpha werewolf, there was only so many thing she could do to accomplish that feat. All of them were batshit.
Heather Killough-Walden
#15. Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
Helen Keller
#16. Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today
Maxwell Maltz
#18. The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
Joe Henderson
#19. Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.
Theodore J. Kaczynski
#20. 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
#21. It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.
Daisaku Ikeda
#22. It's not some specific quality the guy has. It's that he wants to be all of those things for that specific woman. He wants to be whatever she needs him to be, and he'll challenge, take on, and defeat any obstacle that gets in his way in order to do it.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#23. I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.
Eric Cantona
#24. It Takes a Network to Defeat a Network." With that, we took the first step toward an entirely new conversation.
Stanley McChrystal
#27. When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.
Michele Bachmann
#28. Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper.
Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity,
deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?
Gangaji
#29. For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
Jonathan Carroll
#30. A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour
#31. Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.
Nelson Mandela
#33. There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
William Howard Taft
#34. One should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for revelling in the misfortunes of another.
Alexander McCall Smith
#35. An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.
Yukio Mishima
#36. Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
Walter Lord
#37. Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?"
"A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!"
"Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell how to defeat Set?"
"Better! The title reads: The Book of Summoning Fruit Bats!
Rick Riordan
#39. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.
Rand Paul
#40. And with the Savior's passing came Satan's sure defeat
Christ whispered, "It is finished," for payment was complete.
I could not earn salvation, it's been dispensed for free
And mercy's gates would open, as He has died for me.
Joyce Rachelle
#41. You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Les Brown
#42. There's only one way to defeat the sorrow and sadness of life - with laughter and rejoicing. Bring out the good dishes, put on your good clothes, no sense hoarding them.
Rohinton Mistry
#43. ... Its not how you handle defeat or adversity, its how you get up that matters.
Bruce Poon Tip
#44. Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
Susan Glaspell
#45. to defeat pain he had to separate it from time, its most useful ally.
Mark Helprin
#46. John Adams commented after one disastrous defeat, In general, our Generals were outgeneralled.
Anonymous
#47. We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.
Dick Bennett
#48. Did is a word of achievement,
Won't is a word of retreat,
Might is a word of bereavement,
Can't is a word of defeat,
Ought is a word of duty,
Try is a word each hour,
Will is a word of beauty,
Can is a word of power.
Ann Landers
#50. 100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.
Patience Jonathan
#51. Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
A.B. Simpson
#52. We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
George William Russell
#54. Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.
Gregoire Delacourt
#55. In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. A key principle of success is to always refuse to let any setback in your life ... defeat you. Keep moving forward!
Timothy Pina
#57. bad things do not happen because of a wildly complex swirl of abstract historical and social variables. They happen because bad men live to stalk our happiness. And you can fight, and possibly even defeat, bad men. If you can read the hidden story
Jonathan Gottschall
#58. Monsters did exist. They didn't hide under the bed, though. They stormed through the fucking door and stole away everything we loved.
To defeat a monster, I had to become one.
Keri Lake
#59. Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway,
#60. How women defeat one another; how need defeats women.
Robin Oliveira
#61. Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph
#62. If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.
Murray Warmath
#63. Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.
Debasish Mridha
#64. I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
Edward Teller
#65. Joy turns tears into laughter.
Hope turns mourning into gladness.
Wisdom turns tragedy into fortune.
Faith turns defeat into triumph.
Love turns enmity into friendship.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#66. The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.
George Allen
#67. A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.
Randy Wayne White
#68. Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage.
Jocelyn Murray
#69. My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.
Blake Judd
#70. Remember the scene in Cat Ballou where a very drunk Lee Marvin goes from unconscious to ranting to triumphant to roaring to weeping defeat, and then finally passes out? One of the men watching him says, with real awe, "I never seen a man get through a day so fast." Don't let this be you.
Anne Lamott
#71. Yeah, you do. Because right now, I'm your best hope to defeat Byzamoth. So if you don't want to spend eternity bent over and holding your ankles for him, you'll back the fuck off.
~Wraith
Larissa Ione
#72. This is the thing I fight. This is the monster I must defeat. I fear that I have taken too long. Already, so much destruction has occurred that I fear for mankind's survival. Is this truly the end of the world, as many of the philosophers predict?
Brandon Sanderson
#73. 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
#74. Lesson number one: defensiveness is defeat. Never defend yourself.
Leah Raeder
#75. The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Sun Tzu
#76. Your life will change for the better when you finally accept and deal with the fact that you have a chronic attraction to poisonous people. Face it. Fight it. Defeat it. Setting a better standard shapes a better life.
Steve Maraboli
#77. 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
#78. There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Saul Bellow
#80. But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slayer of evil, I defeat all those who raise their swords in opposition to Arthur, King of all Britain."
"Trust me, kid, women prefer a man who can cook.
Tanya Huff
#81. 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
#82. No one can avoid defeat. That is why it is better to lose a few battles in the fight for your dreams than to be defeated without even knowing why you are fighting.
Paulo Coelho
#83. And whence is courage: the unanswered question, the resolute doubt, - dumbly calling, deafly listening - that in misfortune, even death, encourages others and in its defeat, stirs the soul to be strong?
Marianne Moore
#85. When the heavens are with you, when the earth is with you, when the sea is with you, when the wind is with you. Who's going to defeat you after that? Nobody.
Anjem Choudary
#86. Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.
Sonya Hartnett
#87. Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.
Yamaoka Tesshu
#88. I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart.
Antonio
Rudolfo Anaya
#89. The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.
William C. Brown
#90. Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy
#91. In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat.
Emily Thorne
#92. Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
Bruce Lee
#93. Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.
Ron Holland
#95. Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can. How
Seth Godin
#96. It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war."
Defeat is worse."
I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.
Ernest Hemingway,
#97. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
Charles Lindbergh
#98. Nothingness is staring you in the face. Utter and permanent oblivion. You will cease to be. To be, Jack. The dier accepts this and dies. The killer, in theory, attempts to defeat his own death by killing others. He buys time, he buys life. - Murray (WN 291)
Don DeLillo
#99. In the very instant of his birth, I associated Kevin with my own limitations - with not only suffering, but defeat. Eva
Lionel Shriver
#100. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat.
Frank Herbert
