Quotes of: Defeat Keyword

Defeat is only a word. Defeat was the beginning of a victory.

Launa Rissadia

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Marion Crawford

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Maya Angelou

Success - is not about defeating others; but about defeating oneself

Ashok Kallarakkal

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

C. L. R. James

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Victory makes you into an emperor, defeat into a rebel.

Vietnamese

A wise man accepts defeat, a fool accepts to defeat

Norbert Harms

It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our fi...

Manuscript Found in Accra

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

Camille Paglia

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

Chris Hadfield

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

Henry Flynt

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Plato

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Sallust

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Anais Nin

life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.

Anais Nin