To conquer life defeats the purpose of living

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories.

— Gianluigi Buffon

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whenever I lose, I…

— Gianluigi Buffon

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles…

— Paulo Coelho

We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you…

— Maya Angelou

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

— Brian Kernighan

“We do not conquer life, no one can conquer what one cannot define, but at least it is there and it is ours to…

— F. Sionil José

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

— Henry Steele Commager

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

— Aleister Crowley

That you are alive now means you were able to conquer through Life to this moment. Why would you want give all your victories…

— Terry Mark

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

— Philip James Bailey

It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?

— James Grant

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of…

— Henry Steele Commager

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

— Herbert Marcuse

LIFE CAN BE LIVED IN TWO WAYS. One is that of the soldier, and the other, that of the sannyasin. Either you can fight…

— OSHO