Defeat Quotes
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There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
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“The experience of defeat, or more particularly the manner in which a leader reacts to it, is an essential part of what makes a winner.”
Alex Ferguson
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Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.
Lao Tzu
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To overextend yourself is to invite defeat.
George William Domhoff
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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
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The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
Woodrow Wilson
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There are people who try to judge. I'm cool with that. I don't care what nobody say - the only thing that can defeat hate is love.
Young M.A
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If Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand something, it’s not defeat. It’s not even something he has to accept. It’s merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.
Sarah Lacy
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The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.
William Shawcross
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Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arabic-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method. So they allowed it to begin.
Edward Thomas
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When you're young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you.
Anna Seghers
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We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway
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It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
Ben Robertson
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Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.
Benjamin Zander
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To defeat the enemy, we must know him first
Conn Iggulden
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The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.
Peter Pace
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
Mahatma Gandhi
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One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
William Francis Buckley
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Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.
Carrie Vaughn
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Alexandre Dumas