Quotes of: Defeated Keyword

When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

Sisterhood Everlasting

Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

Kitchen

Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we'd starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams.

Lawn of Excluded Middle

The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.

The Singing

That's what any committed patriot would do: Fight to the last. Defeat your enemy at any cost; then hope you have enough left to rebuild.

Serpent's Walk

To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

The Plague

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.

The Passion

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

Requiem for a Dream

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Think and Grow Rich

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn’t defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later.

The Vampire's Bride

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.

Velocity

I melted in my defeat like Victory Ice Cream. I brought along an extra spoon for you, because I’m a sharing kind of guy.

Xazaqazax

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

Jan Karon

My extensive career, with its victories and defeats, championships, etc., has been well documented. My entire life has been focused on being the best race car driver I can be.

Scott Pruett

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

The Art of War

Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory;  show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

The Art of War

It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.

The Magnificent Defeat