Self Defeat Quotes

#1. The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

Damian Marley

#2. Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

Guy Finley

#3. God didn't create you to walk around in self-defeat in any form. Neither are we fashioned to become someone's emotional slave; adhering to the harshness of their words in humility and remorse, while fearing a verbal lashing if we reject their false authority.

T.K. Ware

#4. No matter what horrible circumstances we may face in our lives, we must never lose hope, for losing hope is the beginning of our own self defeat.

Consolee Nishimwe

#5. An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

Guy Finley

#6. An excuse is the most expensive brand of self defeat you will ever purchase.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#7. You have been disappointed,you have undergone defeat during the depression, you have felt the great heart within you crushed until it bled. Take courage, for these experiences have tempered the spiritual metal of which you are made- they are assets of incomparable value.

Napoleon Hill

#8. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Carl Jung

#10. May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.

Celeste Cooper

#11. Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense; but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

Kahlil Gibran

#12. Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about. - in a letter to George Albee

John Steinbeck

#13. Defeat none but one; yourself; for a better self than you were before.

Vikrmn

#14. Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

#15. We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.

Prince Philip

#16. I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice.

James Patterson

#18. The "Warrior Ethos" emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a "guardian of freedom and the American way of life.

Dan Smee

#19. Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat ... Never take yourself too seriously.

Og Mandino

#20. Defeat is always self-chosen.

Colin Wilson

#21. Behind the shadows there lies defeat; Fancy the light where her smile greets.

Jackie Connors

#22. The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.

Norman Cousins

#23. The bigger the lie, the more believable it becomes to the average Arab citizen. Thus, Arab media never fail to be less than outrageous. They blamed the defeat on none other than Israel, as though self-defense and self-preservation was not a right to be exercised by the Jewish enemy.

Nonie Darwish

#24. Understand that when the beast within you
succeeds again in paralyzing into unending
incompletion whatever you again had the temerity to
try to make
its triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of its
rectitude. It knows that it alone
knows you.

Frank Bidart

#25. Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

Napoleon Hill

#26. 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

#27. The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

John Lamb Lash

#28. Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.

Chris Bradford

#29. The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

William Faulkner

#30. Our knees get dusty from time to time, but when they touch the ground, we must never allow the dust to convince us that our submission in that moment is the acceptance of our defeat for an entire lifetime.

A.J. Darkholme

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.

Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#34. How a man handles himself in defeat is more important than how he handles himself in victory.

T.A. Uner

#35. The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

Woodrow Wilson

#36. If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

RZA

#37. When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#38. The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach.

Pawan Mishra

#39. Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#40. To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#41. Defeat is only a word. Defeat was the beginning of a victory.

Launa Rissadia

#42. My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#43. Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.

Joel Osteen

#44. Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Wayne Dyer

#45. That was the strength of Ellysetta's weave. Bright, unyielding,indefatigable love. Love that did not know surrender. Love that did not understand limitations or even basic self-preservation. Love that would batter itself to death before giving in to defeat.

C.L. Wilson

#46. You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction. You are strong, but there is a flaw in your strength, and unless you can learn how to control it the flaw will prove stronger than your strength and defeat you.

Truman Capote

#47. LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

Ambrose Bierce

#48. On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self.

Akira Toriyama

#49. Yet there's no one to beat you | No one t' defeat you | 'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

Bob Dylan

#50. 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

#51. A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

David D. Burns

#52. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

#53. I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

Cory Booker