As a tennis player you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home… — Stan Wawrinka Copy Share Image
“I prefer a defeat that knows the beauty of flowers to a victory in the desert, full of blindness in the soul,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only… — Alexander P. de Seversky Copy Share Image
“A warrior becomes experienced by being defeated; a scholar by making mistakes. Defeat and mistakes we have left in the past," he… — Elaine Marolakos Edelson Copy Share Image
I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that… — John Brown Copy Share Image
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Moscow cannot afford to lose in Ukraine, and it will use every means available to avoid defeat. Putin appears confident that Russia… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Labels are going to tie you down with a 360 deal, they take percentages of literally every endeavor you're tied to. It's… — Ashanti Copy Share Image
“Oh,” he said with resigned defeat. “Would you rather…have someone else? Please don’t say Blake. He’ll be impossible—” “No, it’s—” Ayden slapped… — A. Kirk Copy Share Image
I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Soon you shall be landing In the battleground, ensure you have the right weapons to fight the enemy; ensure you know your… — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
“Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potatoes, carrots, gravy, and chunks of beef.… — David Weber Copy Share Image
As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“It was an admission of defeat. ... He knew he needed to do a better job of navigating the world, but he… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with… — Timothy Murphy Copy Share Image
So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Some people are not actually afraid of defeat. They are simply afraid of realizing later on that they would have won if… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Goalkeeper is a very influential position, and that is becoming recognised now. If you think about it, any error that we make… — Alisson Copy Share Image
I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Jim Miller is an important fight for me. It's just like any other fight, but it's important for me because Jim Miller… — Charles Oliveira Copy Share Image
If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to… — RZA Copy Share Image
“I looked over the despondency of the home crowd. Fools! Fools! I thought. Love it! Love the loss as well as the… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything… — Ivor Novello Copy Share Image
Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused.… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
I always say that in order to appreciate warm weather, you must experience cold. I wouldn't change one thing - all the… — Floyd Patterson Copy Share Image
There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When someone tell you their weakness,never approach them as such. For it maybe the greatest defeat you would ever get,out of such… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat,… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Trump has a pretty remarkable ability, going back to when he was in business, to reframe defeats as wins. So he had… — Tamara Keith Copy Share Image
