Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?

If someone takes my life after defeating me, I am ok with that. But, I never give a second chance to a cheater.

— Raja

Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

— Hideo Kojima

Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.

— Peter Singer

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

— Max Eastman

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.

— N.D. Wilson

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have…

— Sun Tzu

Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.

— Miyamoto Musashi

If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the purpose. If you put good things into your body…

— Matt Kemp

“Defeating death is the best skill of all.”

— Toba Beta

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

— Gregory Stock

The IDF is advancing on the road to defeating Hamas.

— Yoav Gallant

“He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity.”

— Tennessee Williams

I witnessed first-hand the self-defeating results of putting yourself under so much pressure to perform.

— Ananya Birla

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo