Top 100 Quotes About Defeating
#1. My son . . . guilt, in proper measure, can be a useful emotion. However, when indulged to excess it becomes self-defeating, and even worse, tedious.
Lisa Kleypas
#2. The only one who's worthy of defeating me is me! Feeling
Sara Wolf
#3. Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
Melody Beattie
#4. Defeating Human Trafficking is a great moral calling of our time
Condoleezza Rice
#5. A hidden gem of knowledge awaits.."
"in the trees of wisdom where He mandates."
"the right to read the tomes of our people ... "
"to find your answers on defeating the evil.
Candace Knoebel
#6. This will be much more complex than defeating a pack of flesh-eating zombies. It will take fitnesse.
Amanda Carlson
#7. We must understand how we responded to formative trauma and how that response is perpetuated today. Otherwise, we will remain stuck in self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, all the while blaming them on someone else.
Russell Willingham
#8. True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart.
Morihei Ueshiba
#9. I believe most evangelicals know that defeating Obama is at heart of our country's future.
Newt Gingrich
#10. The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#11. Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.
Ludwig Von Mises
#13. All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Vernon Howard
#14. With each step I take I am:
Growing stronger, more spiritual and wiser. Climbing and conquering the imaginary mountains in my mind. Releasing the destroying hurt in my heart. Defeating the fearful giants in my soul. All for the purpose of making a new and improved me.
Timothy Pina
#15. Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
Peter Shepherd
#16. Although we had no hope of defeating the enemy in the battlefield, nevertheless, we fought back to keep the idea of liberation alive. From a conversation with Richard Stengel, January 13, 1993
Nelson Mandela
#17. A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.
Martin O'Malley
#18. Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.
Robert Reich
#19. We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.
Josefina Vazquez Mota
#20. My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
Isaac Newton
#21. We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are
tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that
we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of
relations with our enemies.
Ehud Olmert
#22. Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.
Jake Barton
#23. I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.
Mika Brzezinski
#24. For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
Sun Tzu
#25. Ingenuity and creativity, even for a defeating case of two steps forward and one backward, applied strategically can covert a loss into gain.
Priyavrat Thareja
#26. Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.
John Wooden
#27. One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.
Charles Stanley
#28. Here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.
Wayne Dyer
#29. Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.
Chris Hadfield
#30. When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.
Tracy Austin
#31. If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the purpose. If you put good things into your body while working out, you'll see results.
Matt Kemp
#32. But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.
Tom Robbins
#33. [Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.
David Lloyd George
#34. There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
Akio Morita
#35. To follow precisely the lead of others or advice from a book is self-defeating
Robert Greene
#36. We are not saved by a compromise, by mercy defeating justice, or law suspending its operations; no, we defy the eagle's eye to detect a flaw in the groundwork of our confidence.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#37. Healthy communication and an unconditional environment can prove the greatest asset to defeating at-risk behaviors.
Asa Don Brown
#38. Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#39. Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.
Steve Maraboli
#40. To heal the ancient battle between darkness and light, we may find that it's less about defeating one or the other, and more about choosing our relationship to both.
Gregg Braden
#41. Excuses are contagious, self-defeating bad habits. Where
Tommy Newberry
#42. In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#43. I found not being able to use a pen or pencil as defeating as the loss of her beak would be to a hen.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#44. the subtle but crucial role of our general forms of thinking in sustaining fragmentation and in defeating our deepest urges toward wholeness or integrity.
David Bohm
#45. I have said from the beginning that Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party the day he questioned America's involvement in defeating Nazi Germany.
John McCain
#46. Hence the skillful fighter puts himself into a position which makes defeat impossible, and does not miss the moment for defeating the enemy.
Sun Tzu
#47. Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him ...
Saddam Hussein
#48. Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
Sol LeWitt
#49. I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.
Ray Lewis
#50. Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.
Albert Ellis
#51. And the mystery knight should win the tourney, defeating every challenger, and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty." "She was," said Meera, "but that's a sadder story.
George R R Martin
#52. In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#53. It is a visual temper tantrum. You are making an ineffective statement about this and that, a grotesque, self-defeating mockery of cultural standards of beauty, societal misogyny. It is a blow to your parents, at whom you are pissed.
Marya Hornbacher
#54. As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein].
Bernie Sanders
#55. Replace your self-defeating thoughts with self-supporting thoughts.
Deepak Chopra
#56. God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.
S.D. Gordon
#57. One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.
Gautama Buddha
#58. The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#59. If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.
Seth Godin
#60. I think you'll find that one would be self-defeating." Jace said lightly shoving his feet into his boots. "We are bound, he and I. Cut him and I bleed.
Cassandra Clare
#61. Not with any hope of defeating solitude in that way, but, quite the contrary, in order to nurture it
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#62. I've always though of writing as the opposite of suicide," she said. "That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it."
"Like Scheherazade?"
"Yes," she said. "Spinning tales to forestall her execution ...
Ruth Ozeki
#63. I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
Charles XII Of Sweden
#64. I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals ... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.
Robert A. Heinlein
#65. All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.
Aldo Leopold
#66. Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
Chris Bradford
#67. Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).
Jacques Mieses
#68. As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.
Kevin Allen
#69. Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I don't think World War III is going to happen in Syria.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#70. According to Aristotle, envy is pain for the presence of good things in others, whereas emulation is pain for their absence in us. This is a subtle but critical difference. Unlike envy, which is self-defeating, emulation is a good thing because it makes us take steps towards securing good things.
Neel Burton
#71. Shutting down discussion is self-defeating and impedes progress. We need to talk and listen and debate and refute and instruct and learn and evolve.
Sheryl Sandberg
#72. There is satisfaction in defeating an enemy. But one must never allow oneself to become complacent. There are always more enemies to be identified, faced, and vanquished.
Timothy Zahn
#73. We need to be focused on defeating radical Islamic terrorists.
Ted Cruz
#74. One quick sidebar on this topic - don't waste any more time trying to make your web pages work for browsers that don't support HTML5 - it's self-defeating and can, in many instances actually harm your position in SERP's.
Michalis Kotzakolios
#75. You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army.
Des Browne
#76. I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.
Jane Smiley
#77. Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.
Gregory Stock
#78. The closest he comes to explaining why he found it gay is to say that like "Virginia Woolf", it showed a woman defeating a man. Presumably a straight man could never imagine such a thing.
Christopher Bram
#79. There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.
David Lloyd-Jones
#80. It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler
#81. Imagine the word CANCEL being a huge rubber stamp in your mind. Stamp CANCEL on any self-defeating image you place in your head, and begin to think in a self-enhancing way.
Wayne Dyer
#82. He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#83. Young people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. Today, their lives and futures are at risk throughout the world because of this disease. I believe it is young people throughout the world who offer us the greatest hope for defeating this deadly pandemic.
Liam Neeson
#84. Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative.
Seth Adam Smith
#85. You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.
Albert Ellis
#86. Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
Eric Voegelin
#87. Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.
N.D. Wilson
#88. It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#89. It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#90. We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
Mitch Daniels
#91. Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
James F. Cooper
#92. 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
#93. I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
Ashton Eaton
#94. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#95. Even to someone as notorious as Madonna, I think Jesus would say, 'I'll help you experience the fulfillment that has eluded you despite your struggle to find it. I'll help heal whatever's driving you to affirm your self-worth in self-defeating ways. But I can only help you if you let me.
Lee Strobel
#96. My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.
Tsukahara Bokuden
#97. Cities remind us that the desire to escape from the problems of other people by fleeing to a suburb, small town, or a monastery, for that matter, is an unholy thing, and ultimately self-defeating. We can no more escape from other people than we can escape from ourselves.
Kathleen Norris
#98. There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
Max Eastman
#99. Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.
Mark Steyn
#100. To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to the history of his or her art - borrowing, stealing, rebelling against, and building on what other artists have done.
Dorianne Laux
