Defeats Quotes

195 quotes by 156 authors

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because… — Jonathan Sacks
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense… — Tom Robbins
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized. — Terry Pratchett
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning… — Rick Riordan
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I… — Charles Bukowski
If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void. — Eoin Colfer
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know… — Maya Angelou
Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats.… — Kevin Brockmeier
Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the… — Joan D. Chittister
But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in… — George MacDonald
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and… — Charles Dickens
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in… — Paulo Coelho
If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore… — Richard Louv
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow. — Amin Maalouf
Good music always defeats bad luck — Jack Vance
If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when… — Carol Plum-Ucci
Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those.… — Susanna Kaysen
The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our… — Haruki Murakami
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. — Maya Angelou
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,… — Hannah Arendt

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