Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat, — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith Copy Share Image
I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing. — John McCain Copy Share Image
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To defeat the darkness out there, you must defeat the darkness in yourself.” — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
The truth is that whenever one makes a debut, you're happy but when you start with a defeat, it's difficult. — Andre Onana Copy Share Image
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The West only talks about how you can militarily defeat the terrorists, but terrorists are very difficult to defeat because they can… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
I would rank George Washington as America's greatest president, but he only had to defeat what was then the world's greatest military… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
