Top 68 You Are Not Defeated Quotes
#1. You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.
Paulo Coelho
#2. 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
#3. The power of the gospel lies[ ... ] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been defeated, that God's new world has begun.
N. T. Wright
#4. Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
#6. The cut under his eye and the split skin on his lower lip only enhanced his profile. He didn't look defeated. He looked like a fighter. A champion.
Lisa Kessler
#8. It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#9. America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.
Ronald Reagan
#12. Wait," Dion said. "You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?" "I use the cards dealt to me.
Brandon Sanderson
#13. I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
Orson Scott Card
#14. We cannot meet 'em [Democrates] halfway. We can't cross the aisle. These people, I'm talking about the left wherever you find them, the Democrats, they have to be defeated.
Rush Limbaugh
#15. The poet is he who fights on the passionate
Side and whoever loses he wins; when he
Is defeated it is hard to say who wins ...
Allen Tate
#16. I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
Claire McCaskill
#17. That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
Jorge Luis Borges
#18. Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.
Che Guevara
#19. 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
#20. You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
#21. Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated; they simply quit ... As you face bad experiences, it's important for you to remember that you can rarely see the benefits while you're in the midst of them. You usually gain perspective on the other side of it.
John C. Maxwell
#22. Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
#23. It only put me in Gryffindor," said Harry in a defeated voice, "because I asked not to go in Slytherin. . . ." "Exactly," said Dumbledore, beaming once more. "Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Harry
J.K. Rowling
#24. Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.
Daniel Goleman
#25. Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.
Elizabeth George
#26. But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are 'they?'"
"I don't know. Just people."
"That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?
John Connolly
#27. We don't escape our pasts, you know," Madd said. He sounded defeated. "Never. We can never escape what we are."
"Maybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.
Tali Spencer
#28. I cannot be defeated, because you are not my opponent. I cannot lose, because I am not fighting. And in the end, all I have to do to win is honor the path I have chosen and honor yours, too.
James A. Owen
#29. You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't create us to be defeated.
Shannon L. Alder
#30. Make all approaches to the stream with care and caution. Remember that once you are seen you are a great disadvantage if not completely defeated
Ray Bergman
#31. You had to deal with a situation you did not want. Once you are defeated, you have to do what you are told.
Don Kladstrup
#32. Do not be defeated by the
Feeling that there is too much for you to know. That
is a myth of the oppressor. You are
Capable of understanding life. And it is yours alone.
And only this time.
Kenneth Koch
#33. All too often, we are pleasing the enemy MORE than we are pleasing God by living defeated. Jesus did not die for us to walk around defeated. You have the POWER to turn any situation around that you want to.
Sandra M. Michelle
#34. You are descended from warriors. An endless parade of warriors. You have been alive for a billion years, an unbroken line of DNA. You will not be defeated by a ditch.
Nick Lake
#35. You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting.
Vikrmn
#36. Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
Carlos Castaneda
#37. A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
Woodrow Wilson
#38. Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
David Korten
#39. At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.
Denis Markell
#40. Because," Leonard said, "light overcomes darkness. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe you can be defeated.
Dave Barry
#41. Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.
Robert E.Lee
#42. Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
Bill Gates
#43. When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
Philippa Gregory
#44. Oh darling,
The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be defeated
Again.
Nikki Rowe
#45. You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.
Billy Mills
#46. If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
Epictetus
#47. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
Douglas MacArthur
#48. We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.
Bruce Davison
#49. I understood then why people were so often defeated by this world. Perhaps the web of support that they required just did not come into alignment when it had to. Or perhaps our culture lacked the channels by which to offer this support.
Guy Mankowski
#50. Linear's defeated form
The intangible reality rise.' ~ Wanderer
Stella Coulson
#51. In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.
Newt Gingrich
#52. The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.
Gloria Steinem
#53. When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon
#56. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
Sun Tzu
#57. When nothing was, then God was there,
Had nothing been God would have been;
My being has defeated me,
Had I not been, what would have been.
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
#58. Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision.
Jim Stovall
#59. I'll get you back for this, bitch," the male cupping his balls managed to grit out.
She gave him a patronising smile. "I know this must be painful for your ego. Try not to think of it as being defeated. Just think of it as being beat up by a girl.
Suzanne Wright
#60. Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.
Santosh Kalwar
#61. There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr.
Umberto Eco
#62. Because our minds process information solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category.
Jeff VanderMeer
#63. I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.
Glenda Jackson
#64. I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.
Ivo Andric
#65. It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself. How mankind hates himself.
John Steinbeck
#66. Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during the revolt of 1857. Even after she was defeated she defied Queen Victoria's famous Proclamation and issued a counter Proclamation ...
Qurratulain Hyder
#67. The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!
Chris Oyakhilome
#68. Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
Rose Wilder Lane