Defeat Quotes · Page 44

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

— Sun Tzu

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

— Democritus

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

— Ralph Ellison

Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

— Ayn Rand

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

“To defeat the darkness out there, you must defeat the darkness in yourself.”

— CS Lewis

The truth is that whenever one makes a debut, you're happy but when you start with a defeat, it's difficult.

— Andre Onana

“Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end…

— J.G. Ballard

Reflecting on defeat is a conditioned response. Children don't know how to do this until society teaches them that powerful word -…

— Ruben Papian

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and…

— Aleister Crowley

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates…

— Maya Angelou

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats,…

— D. A. Carson

A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are…

— Michael Dolan

If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement…

— Myron Tribus

I don't feel that Shaunae Miller cheated me because she didn't break any rules or anything like that, but I do feel…

— Allyson Felix

I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats.…

— Sherwood Anderson

People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very…

— Peter Cameron

The challenge in Iraq is to provide a security plan such that a political process can go forward. I'm sure you all…

— George W. Bush

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones…

— Winston Churchill

Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the…

— Barbara Deming

I don't understand the whole Christian conservativism doesn't make sense to me because I was raised very Christian and its kind of…

— Margaret Cho

Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude towards that fact. How you think…

— Norman Vincent Peale

“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist to us”

— Victoria I

“have moved back home with Dad until I got myself sorted out, but that felt like too much of a defeat.”

— Jess Ryder

And those opposing me, have no souls indeed, I'm like a parapalege, I dont know defeat (the feet).

— Wale

I just could't accept defeat. he Lord had to knock me down and stand on my chest to show me the error…

— John DeLorean

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." ( Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13 , 3 May 1919)”

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

— Rick Yancey

Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.

— Naftali Bennett

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

— Malala Yousafzai

We can only achieve success if we don't give up and keep trying after every defeat till achieving what we desire.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“War is much more fun when you're winning. Defeat makes my wounds ache.”

— Martok

I have suffered defeat, pain, loss .Still I push to the edge, never falter.

— All That Remains

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“Even the best of us can falter in the face of an insurmountable task. But that does not mean we accept defeat.”

— Saim .A. Cheeda

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest…

— Alan Keyes

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

— George H. W. Bush