Defeated Quotes
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We need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our party, we have repeatedly defeated the government over its attacks on living standards.
Wes Streeting
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But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.
Tony Blair
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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
George Herbert Palmer
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Major danger lie for America? That we could very well be defeated oversees and at home. And the source of it is clearly that we have yet to find a politician in either partywho's willing to tell the American people the truth.
Michael Scheuer
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All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically.
Steven Weinberg
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Octavian’s patron, Apollo, the god of reason, had defeated Antony’s patron, Hercules, the symbol of might.
Barry S. Strauss
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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
Ida Tarbell
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To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.
Neal Ascherson
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The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue.
George Washington
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Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
Stephane Hessel
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One should respect a defeated opponent!
Alexander Khalifman
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Any customer that walks away, disrespected and defeated, represents tens of thousands of dollars out the door, in addition to the failure of a promise the brand made in the first place. You can't see it but it's happening, daily.
Seth Godin
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To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue...Shadows of yesterday's grief melt in the rays of early morn's opportunity.
Russell M. Nelson
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Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
Horace Greeley
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Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.
Charles Caldwell Ryrie
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He has held me when I have had no more strength and have wondered how I would ever make it. He has held me when I have felt defeated by all that I had to do. When I have run to my El Shaddai, I have never come away wanting. He is my all-sufficient One. O Beloved, do you understand? Have you experienced Him as your El Shaddai? If not, He is waiting - arms opened wide - for you.
Kay Arthur
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Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!
Eric Thomas
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Every lesbian spearchucker is hoping I get defeated.
Bob Dornan
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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon
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We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.
Charles D'Ambrosio
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Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.
Thomas Mallon