I'm not going to allow my trials to defeat me, I'm going to let them build me up and learn from them… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It was a struggle to find myself. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There were too many defeats. I… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
“anyone can be humble.but if you call yourself the best and challenge someone like that all that awaits you is the humiliation… — Inagaki Riichiro Copy Share Image
We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and… — Aung San Copy Share Image
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men,… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men,… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy… — Fred Reinfeld Copy Share Image
I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“A retreat from someone or something isn't unusual. Just as how you edge closer to see better, at times you may need… — Rajuda Copy Share Image
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is… — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren. — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
