Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our mission to defeat ISIS has been slowed down by the need to defend from additional Iranian attacks. — Conor Lamb Copy Share Image
I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve. — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in… — Fielding H. Yost Copy Share Image
When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years… — Charles Colson 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
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
I would rank George Washington as America's greatest president, but he only had to defeat what was then the world's greatest military… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed… — William Howard Russell Copy Share Image
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
“Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political… — Raul Grijalva Copy Share Image
“Giving up means you are offering something. Most of the time, what you are offering is your power. If you don’t give… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Defeat is a state of mind, no one will be defeated unless the loss is accepted as a reality . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you have faith in yourself you will never lick the dust of defeat in any ground” — Saad Khan Copy Share Image
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs.” — C.N. Faust Copy Share Image
It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I know I've been defeated. But I did survived, and in being defeated, I gained a new strength. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Republicans know very well how to lose, and they know how to be very civil in defeat. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming. — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
