Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat. — John Christopher Copy Share Image
One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us. — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him, — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The focus ought to be on the single fact that Hillary Clinton wants to double down on a failed foreign policy and… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat. And for me, and I would not be surprised if… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi… — William Shawcross Copy Share Image
The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death.… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In an argument, you may silence your opponent by pressing an advantage of strength or of wealth, or of education. But you… — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope. There' a reason why people… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Don't let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
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