Defeated Quotes

521 Defeated quotes by 399 unique authors

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that… — Carlos Castaneda
Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as… — Arne Glimcher
The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women,… — Isabel Allende
Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear,… — Francesco Guicciardini
Tony La Russa is considered among the best in his business. Yet nearly half the time he led his organizations into competition, they were defeated… — Don Yaeger
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered. — George William Russell
The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was… — Martin Jacques
John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency.… — Robert Dallek
Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide… — Stephen Kinzer
While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for… — Brendan Sexton III
Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated. — Eskinder Nega
Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well. — Thomas Mallon
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. — Richard M. Nixon
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? — Virgil
This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve… — Gustav Stresemann
As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets. — Abu Bakar Bashir
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. — Henry Fielding
If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being… — Paul Williams
The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part… — Bernhard von Bulow
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there… — Graham Greene
A man can be destroyed but not defeated — Ernest Hemingway
LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he… — Ambrose Bierce
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection ½ that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken… — George Orwell

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