The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise,… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that,… — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim Copy Share Image
I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion,… — Mojo Nixon Copy Share Image
Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational… — Merrill McPeak Copy Share Image
You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done… So if they ever get their… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I… — Jahangir Khan Copy Share Image
The process of liberation brings with it a profound conflict. Having the project be clear is not enough. What is necessary is… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
Even now, when I go over to my mother's house and dig out the old tracksuit tops I wore, it makes the… — Steve Perryman Copy Share Image
Don't let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope. There' a reason why people… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
“Face it; life's gonna chew you up and spit you out. If you're lucky you'll get stuck to the bottom of someone's… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is… — Darrell Royal Copy Share Image
[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
So far the biggest accomplishment I give myself is getting the silver in the Olympic Trials. Even though it's kind of a… — Keith Thurman Copy Share Image
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that… — John Brown Copy Share Image
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only… — Alexander P. de Seversky Copy Share Image
“I prefer a defeat that knows the beauty of flowers to a victory in the desert, full of blindness in the soul,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
As a tennis player you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home… — Stan Wawrinka Copy Share Image
“A warrior becomes experienced by being defeated; a scholar by making mistakes. Defeat and mistakes we have left in the past," he… — Elaine Marolakos Edelson Copy Share Image
“The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“But I don’t panic. I don’t bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It isn’t… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide… — Peter Pace Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
“Darkness has conquered the day; the arms of the night slapped the living daylight off the day.Gripping. Killing. Totally overwhelming. The taste… — Chika Onyenezi Copy Share Image
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves… — George Soros Copy Share Image