Defeat Quotes · Page 40

“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.

— Yamaoka Tesshu

The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler

— Heidi Heitkamp

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

— Sam Storms

We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

— Jay Samit

I doesn't matter if you've failed, if you've been beaten. All that really matters is if you get back up and try…

— Bernajoy Vaal

Everyone faces defeats, setbacks, reversals of fortune. But just like water wearing away rock, persistence triumphs. Resilience is one of the most…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Theirs was a tug-of-war and neither could let go. Both felt the burn and still wouldn't let go. Some might call it…

— Donna Lynn Hope

Defeating ISIS. If we do not defeat them abroad, we will be facing more and more of a threat at home. This…

— Lee Zeldin

Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past…

— Hans Selye

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label…

— Peter Sellers

Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner,…

— Cato the Younger

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat…

— George Carlin

I think if somebody comes up and simply says, your jobs? I'm going to bring them back. You're not comfortable with the…

— Bruce Springsteen

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required…

— Philip K. Dick

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumps, even though checkered by failure, then to take rank with…

— david mccullough

“You see, only defeat forces things to change. When losing, we feel reborn and we find the guts to live again by…

— Manos Hadjidakis

To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of…

— John Donne

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have…

— Walter Cronkite

I want to hold onto that because I think every kid when they dream about playing basketball, they don't dream about being…

— Chris Bosh

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

— Mary Renault

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

— Martha Gellhorn

“...there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.”

— Robert Pirsig

“I don't think we choked this time. We never played well enough to choke.”

— Craig Matthews

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

— Mark Twain

Our mission to defeat ISIS has been slowed down by the need to defend from additional Iranian attacks.

— Conor Lamb

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

— Timothy Noah

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

— Phil Gramm

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

— Anonymous

I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

— Rand Paul

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as…

— Robert Breault

All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat…

— Edwin Louis Cole

Hope gave me the power to go on but it would not let me admit defeat.

— Amber Hope

“While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.”

— Maya Angelou

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

— Orhan Pamuk