Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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
The Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
God is faithful. He'll fulfill every promise he's made. There's no disease God cannot heal, no heart he cannot mend, no bondage… — Christine Caine 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
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
When your inner mantra becomes 'How may I serve?' rather than 'What am I going to get?' and 'Who do I need… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war. — Michael Ignatieff 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
Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
Great minds go for greater challenges even when faced with life risk, they never surrender to defeat or failure. — Gendy O Mbah Copy Share Image
Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves. — Roy Cohn 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
