Defeated Quotes

521 Defeated quotes by 399 unique authors

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed. — Ivo Andric
Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two… — Pablo Neruda
You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit. — Paulo Coelho
Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright. — Jane Espenson
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed… — Yann Martel
In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we… — Edward Said
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after… — Mark Helprin
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the… — Napoleon Hill
Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response… — Dean Koontz
For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character. — Cressida Cowell
Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious. — Paulo Coelho
Because if I see you defeated, then I think I will see Alban defeated, and if that happens, none of us can go on. To… — Juliet Marillier
Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you… — Paulo Coelho
only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose ........ — Paulo Coelho
If you muster that courage to stand under fire and not go down, you will amass an inner strength that no one can touch. You… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle… — Paulo Coelho
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within. — Eleanor Roosevelt
You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism! — Matthew Quick
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why… — Ernest Hemingway
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he… — William Arthur Ward
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. — Steven Weinberg
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. — Sun Tzu
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. — Roger Crawford
A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself — Jan Smuts

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