What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the… — Tsugumi Ohba Copy Share Image
Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel… — Questlove Copy Share Image
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated. — Richard A. Knaak Copy Share Image
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil… — Brendan Sexton III Copy Share Image
If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have… — Sakya Pandita Copy Share Image
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time,… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The Afghan "negotiation phase" immediately precedes the traditional Afghan "surrender phase." This entails the following: The defeated party surrenders and then comes… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
