Defeat Quotes
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Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz
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Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
William Hartston -
I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.
Jose Rizal -
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.
Blake Judd -
Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.
Georgi Plekhanov -
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.
Albert Kesselring
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Censorship defeats the right to self determination.
Billy Forbes -
Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle it graciously.
Brad Tavares -
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
Beverly Sills -
The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.
Millard Fillmore -
There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.
Gary Newbon -
If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."
Norman Vincent Peale
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Alexandre Dumas -
Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
Kathleen Dowling Singh -
We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
Moshe Sharett -
I kept saying to the guys all year long is that you learn different things from defeat and you learn different things from winning.
Barry Trotz -
The greatest victory is defeat.
Henrik Ibsen -
Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.
Bill Musselman
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I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.
Etgar Keret -
It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.
Ernest Hemingway -
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.
Sonya Hartnett -
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill