Defeat Quotes · Page 36

The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.

— Walther von Brauchitsch

“Too often my journey is described as the place that I last fell that I never got up from.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

— William Arthur Ward

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has…

— Eric Liddell

“Satan knows, if you are against YOURSELF you will never fulfill your destiny. :(”

— Joel Osteen

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

— Bill Ayers

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat.”

— Siddhārtha Gautama

Former President Donald Trump freed U.S. military commanders from unsound Obama-era constraints and enabled our troops to militarily defeat the ISIS caliphate.

— Bill Hagerty

“There is no more deadly peril than disobedience; States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins, Armies defeated, victory turned to…

— Sophocles

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no…

— Douglas MacArthur

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another…

— Anne Rice

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind…

— Joe Henderson

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of…

— Theodore Kaczynski

Never accept defeat always I always keep my head in the cloud and making my path brighter because I'm always thinking and…

— JOhnny Lall

I will defeat sorrow[]I will stand my ground and be strong. I don't know when it will be but someday, I will…

— Yuna

“There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of…

— Andrew Davidson

“You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather…

— Darrell Drake

I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough…

— Kevin Keegan

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on…

— Samuel Johnson

Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people--what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place,…

— Robin Furth

“At the time he had closed in upon himself, denying her a place of entry. She was tenacious, aggressive as a lover,…

— Aminatta Forna

Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like…

— Daniel Suarez

For Trump, the story is everything. There is no real plan to defeat the villains that Trump tees up, of course.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

— Anonymous

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

— A.J. Cronin

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

— Oscar Wilde

“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

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

— Kristen Ashley

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

— Napoleon Hill

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

— Sun Tzu

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

— Eiji Yoshikawa

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

— Germaine Greer