Defeats Quotes

195 quotes by 156 authors

It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified… — Charles Krauthammer
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one… — Maya Angelou
I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to… — Charles Bukowski
For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with all its blunders… — Og Mandino
The process of liberation brings with it a profound conflict. Having the project be clear is not enough. What is necessary is a spirituality of… — Leonardo Boff
Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made… — Napoleon Hill
Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith. — George Muller
He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It… — Winston Churchill
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent. — William Shakespeare
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats. — Che Guevara
I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you… — Maya Angelou
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats… — Aristotle
I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There… — John Sayles
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and… — Maya Angelou
Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. — Og Mandino
In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself. — Franz Stampfl
Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They… — Victorio
For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them. — Robert Kiyosaki
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde
Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that… — Kenny Smith

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