Defeat Quotes
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A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.
Georges St-Pierre
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster
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President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.
Bill Clinton
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Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.
Eugenie Scott
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Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
Kathleen Dowling Singh
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The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost their main fighting force.
Abdullah Abdullah
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God will defeat the great infidels.
Mohammed Omar
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
Baruch Spinoza
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz
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It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.
Edgar Snow
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The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.
Tony Blair
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We know that we can defeat Islamist terrorism without violating our ideals; indeed, we must. These ideals, these American ideals.
Evan McMullin
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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
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The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
Ivor Novello
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There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
Beverly Sills
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Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.
Tulsi Gabbard
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View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.
Elana Meyers
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To cease to love - that is defeat.
Susan Glaspell
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Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is like a prison. You can have a life sentence in prison and it's the same in cities.
Burhan Sonmez
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The greatest victory is defeat.
Henrik Ibsen
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There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.
Gary Newbon
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The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?
Elisabeth Elliot
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Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
Helen Keller
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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