Winners are those who defeat defeat.
There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever a...
Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
No one can defeat you, unless you defeat yourself. .
In life, defeats are inevitable, but never feel defeated.
Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.
Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.
A troubled economy is always the sitting president's fault. It was when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, when Bill Clinton defeated George H.W. Bush, and when Barack Obama defeated John McCain by running against George W. Bush.
There are feet that are swift to mete out defeat to anything different, but in doing so the assailant is already defeated. I say to them that the lack of awareness concerning their premature end is due to their immaturity and ignorance. The awareness...
Defeat is only a word. Defeat was the beginning of a victory.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Success - is not about defeating others; but about defeating oneself
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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.
Victory makes you into an emperor, defeat into a rebel.
A wise man accepts defeat, a fool accepts to defeat
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.
