From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, DC, I did everything I could to defeat cap… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The contest lay not between love and duty. Perhaps there never is such a contest. It lay between the real and the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn’t work. The harder you fight,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I don't feel like I have a lot to offer in terms of an authoritative voice on a lot of political issue.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous 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
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a… — Elmer Davis Copy Share Image
Russia wants to defeat ISIS as badly as America does. If we had a relationship with Russia, wouldn't it be wonderful if… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
“...[Mystery] delivered one of the many great aphorisms that that he used to turn defeat into triumph. "Where there's a problem, there's… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting — and… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit,… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to prove to you, no matter… — Saulo Ribeiro Copy Share Image
In high school I would use that total defeat that I felt in any type of mistake to go to the gym.… — Grayson Allen Copy Share Image
A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“But remember this above all: defeat your instinct. Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It's getting tougher and tougher to defeat ISIS, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Victory or defeat are largely out of my control, but putting up a good fight… putting up the kind of fight that… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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