It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use… — Kyuzo Mifune Copy Share Image
I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I respect Demetrious Johnson to the fullest. I wouldn't travel the world and find different training partners and coaches to help me… — Henry Cejudo Copy Share Image
I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
“He looked at her, but he was only a shadow now. Livia gave him a warning look. He shook his head sadly… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt… — Brian Tee Copy Share Image
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“On October 14, Patton sent identical letters to all his senior commanders: “If you don’t succeed, I don’t want to see you… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will:… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Challenges aren't frightening, defeats aren't terrifying either. A principle that I now insist and persist on is the understanding that you can… — Seungri Copy Share Image
Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
“I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive,… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Accept your defeat, embraced your failure, pickup the challenge, keep moving work harder hoping that one day you will surely get there. — Ogunyombo Oluwaseun David Copy Share Image
To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?" "A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!" "Well?" I demanded.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“For it is clear immediately: human life as such is a defeat. All we can do in the face of that ineluctable… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside." "Or give them… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
