Defeat Quotes · Page 28

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

— Sri Aurobindo

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

— Carl Froch

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

— Chris Oyakhilome

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

— Ameen Rihani

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.

— Brené Brown

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

— Vo Nguyen Giap

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

— Alison Lurie

I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the…

— Anonymous

I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that…

— Bernie Sanders

I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date…

— Chris Cleave

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and…

— Anonymous

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.…

— Jahangir Khan

There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in…

— James Russell Lowell

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and…

— Dag Hammarskjold

The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life,…

— Albert Ellis

At one point, for example, [Donald Trump] argued that he knew much more than military leaders about the pursuit and defeat of…

— David Krieger

In an argument, you may silence your opponent by pressing an advantage of strength or of wealth, or of education. But you…

— Kano Jigoro

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in…

— Charles Dickens

If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death.…

— Yoshida Shoin

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

— Paulo Coelho

At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis!

— Walter Smith

Sport and life is not about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

— Anonymous

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble…

— Plato

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

— Walter Lippmann

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

— Karl Liebknecht

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear…

— Joe Calzaghe

Small changes lead to big ones. But big changes - trying to become a different person overnight - usually lead to defeat.

— Rachel Simmons

Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is again in…

— Bertolt Brecht

I’m ready when you are, Lucan.” “Okay,” he said, shaking his head in defeat. “Let’s go get our boy.

— Anonymous

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the…

— Alfred Adler

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!

— Mao Zedong

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

— Ernest Hemingway

How do you forgive someone when they believe there is nothing to forgive them for.

— Natasha Buckmaster

“Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but...defeat with God is not defeat.”

— William Faulkner