Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin. — Jay Samit Copy Share Image
Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty. — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory. — Yamaoka Tesshu Copy Share Image
The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler — Heidi Heitkamp Copy Share Image
“I don't think we choked this time. We never played well enough to choke.” — Craig Matthews Copy Share Image
At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Every parent is wondering, how do we keep our kids safe? We need a commander in chief who does what Ronald Reagan… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
History is littered with leaders and movements, now long vanished and mostly forgotten, who failed to get to the deep truths of… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins.… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
God's irony, that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
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