Defeat Quotes

• 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
  • People
  • Warrior
  • Defeat

• 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
  • Believe
  • Home
  • War

• Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

  

  George Edward Woodberry
  • Defeat
  • Failures
  • Tried

• The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

  

  William Penn
  • Word
  • Doe
  • Defeat

• What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

  

  Nick Stone
  • Work
  • Defeat

• Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

  

  Georg Ebers
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Enthusiasm

• To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I extend the heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation. As one of the Nation's finest, you undertook the most severe task one can be called upon to perform. Because you demonstrated the fortitude, resourcefulness and calm judgment necessary to carry out that task, we now look to you for leadership and example to further exalting our country in peace.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Enemy
  • Defeat
  • Armed Forces

• During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them on earth. This is somewhat comparable to the pull of the flesh when our alarm goes off early in the morning. Unless we put "mind over mattress" and carry out the resolves made the night before, we will experience our first defeat that day. Not sufficient to finish. Mission aborted.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Night
  • Earth

• In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

  

  William McKinley
  • May
  • Victory
  • Presidential

• The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

  

  William C. Brown
  • Friends
  • Victory
  • Differences

• 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
  • Opportunity
  • Learning
  • View

• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Men
  • Moments
  • Purpose

• Few men are killed by bayonets, but many are scared by them. Having the bayonet fixed makes our men want to close. Only the threat to close will defeat a determined enemy.

  

  George S. Patton
  • Enemy
  • Defeat
  • Threat

• You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Desire
  • Poverty
  • Victory

• The reality is, if you're going to have a defeat on the road, Week 1 is probably the best time to have it.

  

  Mike McCarthy
  • Reality
  • Best
  • Going

• Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Purpose
  • inspirational
  • Patience

• Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Enemy
  • Blind
  • Dreamed

• No truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Truth
  • Legend
  • Defeat

• Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.

  

  Tulsi Gabbard
  • Enemy
  • Soldier
  • Defeat

• I think that Russia is very aware that they are on notice when it comes to certain issues. They are very aware that we do want to try and defeat ISIS together, if that's at all possible, along with our allies. But there's no love or anything going on with Russia right now. They get that we're getting our strength back, that we're getting our voice back, and that we're starting to lead again. And honestly, at the United Nations, that's the number one comment I get is they're just so happy to see the United States lead again.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Honestly

• Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

  

  Stephen Lewis
  • Women
  • Recognition
  • Pandemic

• We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

  

  Nick Clooney
  • Evil
  • Defeat
  • Becoming

• I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Life
  • Bitter

• Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

  

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull
  • Politics
  • Leaders
  • Defeat

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