Defeats Quotes

195 quotes by 156 authors

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats — Napoleon Hill
Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win. — Paulo Coelho
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. — Matt Taibbi
The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to… — Oscar Wilde
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of… — George Orwell
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The… — Aleister Crowley
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each… — Og Mandino
Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more… — Derek Landy
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Waitress: "And to drink?" Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As your ice is no doubt made from tap… — Eoin Colfer
I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats. It is because… — Sherwood Anderson
She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made… — Bernhard Schlink
Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face… — Paulo Coelho
You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and… — John Edward Williams
I am a series of small victories and large defeats. — Charles Bukowski
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. — Ralph Washington Sockman
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats. — Abraham Lincoln
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands… — John F. Kennedy
Big defeats make us learn. — Danilo Di Luca
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was… — Erik Erikson

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