A predictable opponent is already half defeated.

I don't think much of automatisms, because they assume that a situation is always the same, otherwise the process no longer works. But that…

— Julian Nagelsmann

I never defeated a healthy opponent.

— Savielly Tartakower

“He is not a challenge, he is not a conquest. You were once that for him, back when he used to call you a…

— Vee Hoffman

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

— Carlos Castaneda

Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish…

— Tariq Ali

Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects…

— Arne Glimcher

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right…

— Adolf Hitler

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

— Robert Breault

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.

— Joel Osteen

Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started…

— Serzh Sargsyan

You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest…

— Flower A. Newhouse

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as…

— Kenneth Clarke

The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

— Chris Oyakhilome

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

— Anonymous