Defeat Quotes
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Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.
Marvin J. Ashton
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Beijing cannot sit by and let her North Korean ally be bombed, nor can it allow U.S. and South Korean forces to defeat the North, bring down the regime, and unite the peninsula, with U.S. and South Korean soldiers sitting on the Yalu, as they did in 1950 before Mao ordered his Chinese army into Korea.
Pat Buchanan
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All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.
Ahmed Chalabi
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Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
Paul J. Meyer
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Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.
Loudon Wainwright III
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There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.
Confucius
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But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.
William Gilmore Simms
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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
Martha Gellhorn
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I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
Freya Stark
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As long as you are curious, you defeat age.
Burt Lancaster
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Despite such a heavy defeat, we need to keep calm because the competition is starting and we can't let ourselves become demoralized.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
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Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
Martha Gellhorn
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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
Karl Lagerfeld
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William Gibbs McAdoo
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The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.
Dale Carnegie
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What it is controlled cool, in a way. Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Arthur Ashe
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I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.
Joshua Logan
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Arthur Ashe
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Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving.
Napoleon Hill
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
Emile Zola
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Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
Napoleon Hill