Quotes of: Defeated Keyword

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory.

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce

Shield of the Palidine

His breath smelled like defeat. And dick—mine, which incidentally smelled like his asshole. Ah, but that’s just politics. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.

The Sword of the Spirits

Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.

The Tainted City

I think one who thrives on death may be defeated by life. Elswyth, from A Precarious Journey Into Magic

A Precarious Journey Into Magic

I would say that I was without faith, but no one is truly faithless; they just have faith in the wrong things: fear and defeat.

Promise Me

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.

The Polysyllabic Spree

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

Quote Me Everyday

He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.

Wickedly Charming

Be prepared, but look unprepared. That way, your opponent thinks he doesn’t have to prepare to defeat you.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

Benjamin Harrison

Tony La Russa is considered among the best in his business. Yet nearly half the time he led his organizations into competition, they were defeated - 2,728 wins, 2,365 losses.

Don Yaeger

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

A Civil Campaign

There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.

The Magnificent Defeat

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

The Magnificent Defeat

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

Joshua Logan

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Paul J. Meyer

I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.

Richard V. Allen

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

Rio Ferdinand