Defeat Quotes
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I'm not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don't like being defeated.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
