Defeat Quotes · Page 29

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

— Lou Holtz

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

— Harold Innis

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.

— Eric Cantona

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

— Greg Bear

we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.

— Joel Osteen

Second place is not a defeat. It is a stimulation to get better. It makes you even more determined.

— Carlos Lopes

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

— David Miliband

The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism…

— Warren W. Wiersbe

Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally.…

— Georges St-Pierre

“Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but…

— Zora Neale Hurston

We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

...the aim was to mobilize Christians to proclaim the name of Jesus and to pronounce the defeat of the spiritual forces entrenched…

— Gerald Coates

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling…

— Harvey Cushing

My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of…

— Blake Judd

To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization…

— Friedrich Engels

A champion is suppose to hate to lose, and it wasn't like I was ever crazy about the idea. But I learned…

— Pete Sampras

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are…

— Norman Cousins

While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a…

— Douglas MacArthur

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs.…

— Steven Pressfield

History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men,…

— Leo Strauss

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get…

— Russell Baker

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to…

— Isaac Asimov

Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Defeat is a wonderful experience if it motivates you to never forget you're only as good as your last performance.

— Paul Heyman

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

— Peter Kreeft

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

— John Cassavetes

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory…

— Paulo Coelho

We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No…

— Watchman Nee

Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

— Gautama Buddha

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

— Willard Gaylin

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

— Ron Holland

“As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: it was Reince Priebus’s fault, not hers.”

— Michael Wolff

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

— George Muller

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

— Damian Marley

I think there are a number of issues that we should be addressing. I have put forth a plan to defeat ISIS.

— Hillary Clinton

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

— Napoleon Hill