Defeat Quotes · Page 23

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

— Socrates

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

— Bruce Jackson

Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and…

— Wilferd Peterson

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.

— Saladin

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

— Terry Pratchett

“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.”

— Anonymous

Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.

— John Wooden

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

— Nannie Helen Burroughs

The biggest TEMPTATION of life is to Convert dreams into reality. But the biggest defeat of life comes when We surrender our…

— Ritu Ghatourey

The Democrats don't like the Tea Party because the Tea Party engineered their defeat. The Republicans, some members, don't like the Tea…

— Rush Limbaugh

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what…

— Ashley Montagu

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The…

— Sun Tzu

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled…

— Arthur Golden

“see how God used my powerlessness for His purposes. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs…

— Charles W. Colson

It's a different mindset. Coming from where I come from, we always had to defeat the odds. We didn't have what other…

— Andre Berto

The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as…

— Joan Didion

I know not how to defeat others, I only know how to win over myself. The real and most dangerous opponents we…

— Chris Bradford

I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is…

— Benjamin Carson

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small…

— Aristotle

Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To…

— Mao Zedong

“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable - when the fatal iron gates are about to close…

— George Eliot

A man is not a failure when he is defeated. He fails when he give up and quit trying.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Tranmere didn't defeat me or get me down, the situation did. I fell out of love with football because I wasn't playing.

— Paul Mullin

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

— Imran Khan

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I shouldn't be afraid to lose, I should rather be afraid of being discouraged by it.

— Terry Mark

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

— Wendell Berry

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

— Lolo Jones

You maybe defeat is you love to much But you will live in torment if you Don't trust to much

— Laine

“It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.”

— Solange nicole

I think coaches should get the same amount of credit in victory that they get in defeat.

— Jeff Van Gundy

No matter how hard you knock me down I will get back up,i will not fall from defeat

— Autumn Heist

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of…

— Ludwig von Mises

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

— Matthew Thomas

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

— Georges St-Pierre

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

— Phil Ochs