Defeated Quotes
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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 -
To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.
Neal Ascherson
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All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically.
Steven Weinberg -
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 -
Octavian’s patron, Apollo, the god of reason, had defeated Antony’s patron, Hercules, the symbol of might.
Barry S. Strauss -
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 -
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 -
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.
George Watsky -
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Tony Blair -
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 -
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 -
One should respect a defeated opponent!
Alexander Khalifman -
You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
Kay Arthur
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Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.
Camille -
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 -
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 -
An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Every lesbian spearchucker is hoping I get defeated.
Bob Dornan -
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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You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.
Billy Mills -
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 -
Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.
Thomas Mallon -
We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf