I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
“He’d thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little… and that, more than anything—more than the… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally… — Jean Shepherd Copy Share Image
“Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery… — Carlos Baker Copy Share Image
We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other. — Abdoulaye Wade Copy Share Image
A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human being is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
“When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring only grasses thrive. I… — Matsuo Bashō Copy Share Image
You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference.… — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
Even though Donald Trump has won, even though Hillary Clinton has been vanquished, even though the left has suffered defeat after defeat… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
“This will never happen again. I hope not. If he comes back from a beheading I think that we can just give… — Erica Stevens Copy Share Image
If a fighter suffers defeat, especially in a fight he feels he won, it will never leave his mind. He is always… — Chris Eubank, Jr Copy Share Image
Any trouble or problems facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan… I'm the responsible officer of the Government. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
The post mortem is a ritual which always follows a defeat, no matter which sport you are playing. I know, I've been… — Shane Lowry Copy Share Image
My professional background has prepared me for a moment like this - to confront and defeat a deadly virus that threatens Americans… — Rick Bright Copy Share Image
After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is… — Peyton Manning Copy Share Image
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“Too many Christians have known the agony of defeat without tasting the thrill of victory. One of your great learning experiences will… — Terry Law Copy Share Image
I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! And if, indeed, I fail, At… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi… — William Shawcross Copy Share Image
One could think of ways to defeat the censor. I could put up the answers on my Facebook page or website or… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image