Top 100 Quotes About Defeats
#1. As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.
Brian O'Driscoll
#2. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.
Henning Mankell
#3. Playing an icon [superman], you don't try to be an icon because that defeats the purpose. The responsibility attached is enormous, and the realization that it actually really, really matters meant that I wanted to put the most amount of work into representing the character properly.
Henry Cavill
#4. If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
Richard M. Nixon
#5. It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.
Frederick Lenz
#6. Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it. It's all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.
Jacques Villeneuve
#7. Waitress: "And to drink?"
Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As your ice is no doubt made from tap water, which rather defeats the purpose of spring water.
Eoin Colfer
#8. Hi. Thx for this. No idea. Sorry. L - , Your inquiry defeats me grammatically. Cheers.
Joseph O'Neill
#9. [Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.
Steven Pinker
#10. Your words, your schedule, your choices, your obedience, the way you savor your victories and the way you swallow your defeats all help to define your life. It is this definition that your children rely on most as they seek to chart their own future.
Tim Kimmel
#11. Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.
Erik Erikson
#12. Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
Hugh Prather
#13. Then rang the war chime, the clang of steel on steel loud over Leavenheath, and there came into my heart again the longing to wipe out the memory of old defeats, and I gripped my axe and shield and waited for my turn to come.
Charles W. Whistler
#14. If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it will mark the success of one of the most deeply cynical political campaigns in American history. It is hard to beat an incumbent no matter the economic climate.
Juan Williams
#15. As long as you keep learning from defeats, you will always keep coming back and get stronger all the time
Imran Khan Niazi
#16. You are the best only till someone defeats you.
Sipendr
#17. Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.
William Arthur Ward
#18. Dear 2016,
If I had any defeats in your team, I am glad they were on my terms.
Love,
Defeated Winner
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#19. In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
Matt Taibbi
#20. Good music always defeats bad luck.
Jack Vance
#21. Be honest about your weakness, be honest that you're scared, and be honest about the fact that it's Jesus who defeats the sins that trip you up, not you. God cast us as Israel, not the hero.
Jefferson Bethke
#22. Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else.
Derek Landy
#23. There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato
#24. Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.
George Orwell
#25. Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#26. As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.
Derek Leebaert
#27. I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.
Walter Russell
#28. History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
Elvis Costello
#29. I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.
Lena Headey
#30. Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us
Zoran
#31. Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.
Condoleezza Rice
#32. Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often.
Karleen Koen
#33. The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
Henry Rollins
#34. Jesus on the Cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it, he defeats it with his resurrection.
Pope Francis
#35. Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
Christopher Fry
#36. But for life's little defeats and indignities, I would be happy, content and completely average.
Mark Rude
#37. Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#38. Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.
Ze Frank
#39. Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#40. Dear 2016,
If I has any defeats in your term, I am glad they were on my terms!
Best,
The Defeated Winner
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#41. I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
John Sayles
#42. Let God have your failures. Surrender to Him your most dreadful moments of captivity, your most humiliating defeats. God and God alone can use them to make you twice the warrior you ever dreamed you'd be.
Beth Moore
#43. Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.
Paulo Coelho
#44. The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.
Sonia Johnson
#45. It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
Vernon Howard
#47. We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes ... The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.
Sidney Poitier
#48. Like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you.
Susanna Kaysen
#49. Challenges aren't frightening, defeats aren't terrifying either. A principle that I now insist and persist on is the understanding that you can fulfill your dreams when you work hard and don't give up.
Seungri
#50. If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when they thought none were around. Knowing who they are defeats the purpose.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#52. Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apart
and you sit in the battle field
stitching back yourself
one piece at a time
laughing in the faces of all defeats.
Chetan M. Kumbhar
#53. Sure, Lena gets the credit for being the most powerful Caster of all time. Whatever. It doesn't make me any less excellent. Neither does her too-good-to-be-true Mortal boyfriend, Ethan "the Wayward" Wate, who defeats Darkness in the name of true love every day of the week.
Kami Garcia
#54. Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the greatest city because the fans will stick to a loser season after season. I have had my share of defeats, so I should know.
Charles Comiskey
#55. Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
Wally Lamb
#56. We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.
Frances E. Willard
#57. Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
Robert Trout
#58. True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Emile M. Cioran
#59. Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
Benjamin Graham
#60. One repeated the same old mistakes. Each of us has a blind spot in his thinking that defeats him time and again against all teaching and experience and pain.
Ernest Hebert
#61. We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.
Maya Angelou
#62. It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.
Charles Krauthammer
#63. Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats
Napoleon Hill
#64. We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
Napoleon Hill
#65. In life, defeats are inevitable, but never feel defeated.
Debasish Mridha
#66. I have been in the bodies of starvers and purgers, gluttons and addicts. They all think their actions make their lives more desirable. But the body
always defeats them in the end.
David Levithan
#67. I do take defeats well. However, I don't just leave them at that. I take time to analyze why I was defeated and make sure I don't make the same mistakes again. I think it is important to learn from one's mistakes.
Rain
#68. 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
#69. Through wrestling, through the hard work and the sweat, through the victories and the defeats, we learn a great deal about ourselves. Wrestling shows you your limits, your weaknesses, your strengths and, ultimately, you grow because of what it shows you.
Jay Robinson
#70. If you allow momentary defeats to find shelter in your heart, you are allowing your most beautiful dreams to become homeless.
Dodinsky
#71. The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.
Haruki Murakami
#73. I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did,
Aaron Schock
#74. In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,
Laura Ziskin
#75. Governments have absolutely no interest in self-reliance. It defeats one of the purposes for their existence. They encourage and thrive on dependency. The more of it they sell, the more necessary they are, and the more power and money they need.
Dan Groat
#76. They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.
Adhish Mazumder
#77. When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.
Douglas Alexander
#78. I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.
Jim Cole
#79. In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.
Mignon McLaughlin
#80. you learn more from defeats than you do from victories
Alex Ferguson
#81. Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
Che Guevara
#82. Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Henry Miller
#83. Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson
#84. God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
George Muller
#85. It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats.
Pierce Brown
#86. Our progenitors, our educational systems, the land, the media, the way have deluded and misled the masses: they have been defeated by the aridity of the actual dream. they were unaware that achievement or victory or luck or whatever the hell you want to call it must have its defeats.
Charles Bukowski
#87. Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.
Edward Rutherfurd
#88. The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.
John Lowenstein
#89. You may suffer many defeats in this life, but you will not be defeated.
You will rise after each trial
stronger and wiser.
Leon Brown
#90. But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as though the minded body defeats every attempt to select out only the mind part as deserving sole responsibility for the success.
Alice Koller
#91. How women defeat one another; how need defeats women.
Robin Oliveira
#92. Many people try to avoid looking back. To be sure, there is a wrong way to look back; it is wrong to look back at past sins and failures and defeats. That can only make you fail even more today. But it is good to look back to see where we have been and what the Lord has done in us and through us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#93. Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino
#94. In psychotherapy it is the myth of knowing this why as precondition for change which defeats its own purpose.
Paul Watzlawick
#95. It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.
Lionel Suggs
#96. But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Paulo Coelho
#97. Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry Bolingbroke
#98. Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It's the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#99. I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#100. Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.
Victorio
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