Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and… — Aung San Copy Share Image
“anyone can be humble.but if you call yourself the best and challenge someone like that all that awaits you is the humiliation… — Inagaki Riichiro Copy Share Image
It was a struggle to find myself. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There were too many defeats. I… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy… — Fred Reinfeld Copy Share Image
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men,… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to… — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Lev Davidovich contemplated the Norwegian landscape and, as he would write shortly afterward, made a silent tally of his exile, to confirm… — Leonardo Padura Fuentes Copy Share Image
To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
Even though Donald Trump has won, even though Hillary Clinton has been vanquished, even though the left has suffered defeat after defeat… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
In high school I would use that total defeat that I felt in any type of mistake to go to the gym.… — Grayson Allen Copy Share Image
Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to prove to you, no matter… — Saulo Ribeiro Copy Share Image
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit,… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm not going to allow my trials to defeat me, I'm going to let them build me up and learn from them… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Victory or defeat are largely out of my control, but putting up a good fight… putting up the kind of fight that… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
“The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's getting tougher and tougher to defeat ISIS, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“But remember this above all: defeat your instinct. Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The Biden administration seems so intent on proving Trump wrong they are going to prove him right at the sake of national… — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
Having western, Russian or Iranian forces providing the ground defeat of Isis would certainly work militarily, but would be the least attractive… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
