Defeat Quotes
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No truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
Winifred Holtby -
Education is the key. If you are educated, nothing can defeat you.
Caster Semenya
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William Gibbs McAdoo -
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 -
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 -
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry -
To cease to love - that is defeat.
Susan Glaspell -
The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.
Walther von Brauchitsch
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.
Nick Clooney -
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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What do you do when something you work on defeats you?
Nick Stone -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.
Anthony Robbins -
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
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Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.
Tulsi Gabbard -
There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.
Hugo Lloris -
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