Defeat Quotes · Page 31

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so…

— David Roochnik

I am ready to defeat Manny Pacquiao. Dude, I'm the champion of the world.

— Jessie Vargas

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

— Edith Hamilton

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.

— John Wooden

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

— Wendell Phillips

Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

— Brian Stann

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted…

— Ann Brashares

We are fighting the BJP and the Congress at both the state and national levels. People know them to be two sides…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real…

— Henry Steele Commager

Cast down, O Lord, all the forces of cruelty and wrong. Defeat all selfish and worldly-minded schemes, and prosper all that is…

— John Baillie

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what…

— Ashley Montagu

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the…

— Napoleon Hill

Our allies in the Middle East know that the Islamic State is their fight - and they have asked for very specific…

— Carly Fiorina

“There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat…

— J. W. Lord

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small…

— Aristotle

I know not how to defeat others, I only know how to win over myself. The real and most dangerous opponents we…

— Chris Bradford

I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is…

— Benjamin Carson

The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as…

— Joan Didion

God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels. In terms of worldly affairs, America is very strong. Even if it…

— Mohammed Omar

It's a different mindset. Coming from where I come from, we always had to defeat the odds. We didn't have what other…

— Andre Berto

The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base…

— Chester W. Nimitz

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

— Shirley Chisholm

I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love…

— Lou Gehrig

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

— John McEnroe

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn…

— Edith Hamilton

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

— Denis McDonough

“We all can be defeated; to cope with this eternal fact opens great ways for the future glories!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

— Bruce Lee

“Defeat doesn't finish a man, quitting does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.”

— Richard Milhous Nixon

My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.

— J. B. Pritzker

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

— Vernon Howard

“You're not defeated when you lose a battle. You are defeated when you give up the struggle”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

— Georg Ebers

“One nation is weakened by a victory, another finds new forces in defeat”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I can accept defeat, but I love to win and be competitive. It is my job, and I love it.

— Diego Costa

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

— Napoleon Hill

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

— George Orwell