Defeat Quote by Lydia M. Child Download Open image “A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.” — Lydia M. Child ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defeat Failure
“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything, or his… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens.… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight! — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him. — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover. — Gerardo Martino Copy Share Image
I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We know from this book entitled... What is it? Surrendered? Succumbed? I can never remember the title perform. And we learn from this book… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
It has never been more critical that a leader step forward to accelerate our understanding of cancer - and champion the effort to finally… — Victor J. Dzau Copy Share Image
“It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.” — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
