Best Defeating Quotes
131 Defeating quotes by 103 unique authors
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Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
— David Korten
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It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about…
— Unknown Author
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Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.
— Frank Sinatra
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Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.
— Newt Gingrich
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Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on…
— Rush Limbaugh
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The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get…
— Ray Bradbury
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Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him....
— Saddam Hussein
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One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming…
— Gautama Buddha
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The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
— Sun Tzu
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A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point…
— Saul Alinsky
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Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new…
— Stephen Covey
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Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject…
— Rick Warren
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When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.
— Tracy Austin
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
— Vernon Howard
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.
— Tsukahara Bokuden
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You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.
— Sun Tzu
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It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her…
— Peter Singer
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
— James F. Cooper
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Imagine the word CANCEL being a huge rubber stamp in your mind. Stamp CANCEL on any self-defeating image you place in your head, and begin…
— Wayne Dyer
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Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?
— Unknown Author
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