We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I understand the protests, but not the shooting and the attempts to bring down the state. We cannot allow hatred to control… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
Observe how women defeat each other; whether it's simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won't be beaten… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for… — Elmer Davis Copy Share Image
I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced most Americans - yes even white Americans - are committed to justice and equality for all people. I am… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“There’s some of them’ll be nursing a guid scratch or two on their hinder-ends this night.… Man, it was a rout.’ ‘I… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain,… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Having western, Russian or Iranian forces providing the ground defeat of Isis would certainly work militarily, but would be the least attractive… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The Biden administration seems so intent on proving Trump wrong they are going to prove him right at the sake of national… — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
...the aim was to mobilize Christians to proclaim the name of Jesus and to pronounce the defeat of the spiritual forces entrenched… — Gerald Coates Copy Share Image
“Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally.… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.… — Jahangir Khan Copy Share Image
There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
Challenges aren't frightening, defeats aren't terrifying either. A principle that I now insist and persist on is the understanding that you can… — Seungri Copy Share Image
I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?" "A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!" "Well?" I demanded.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
