Defeat famous quotes
04-23-2025
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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika -
We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.
-- Abdoulaye Wade -
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone
-- Abdul Kalam -
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.
-- Adolf Hitler -
All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.
-- Alan Keyes -
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.
-- Albert Kesselring -
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.
-- Alex Ferguson -
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.
-- Alexander P. de Seversky -
To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.
-- Alison Croggon -
Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.
-- Andy Law -
It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.
-- Ann Aguirre -
Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.
-- Arthur Koestler -
We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.
-- Aung San -
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
-- B. C. Forbes -
People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.
-- Barack Obama -
It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
-- Ben Robertson -
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.
-- Beth Moore -
When you walk with Jesus, defeat turns into victory.
-- Beth Moore -
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
-- Beverley Nichols -
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
-- Beverly Sills -
I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.
-- Bill Ayers -
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
-- Bill Bradley -
Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.
-- Bill Musselman -
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.
-- Brian Kernighan -
Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.
-- Brian Stann -
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.
-- Bruce Catton -
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.
-- Bruce Lee -
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
-- C. T. Vivian -
Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.
-- Carol P. Christ -
Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.
-- Caroline Myss -
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
-- Cesar Chavez -
I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
-- Charles Bukowski -
I am a series of small victories and large defeats.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Fear-filled words will defeat you, but faith-filled words will put you over!
-- Charles Capps -
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
-- Christopher Fry -
I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
-- Clive Anderson -
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
-- Criss Jami -
Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane
-- D. J. MacHale -
If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.
-- D.B.C. Pierre -
The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.
-- Dale Carnegie -
Always remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again.
-- Dan Gable -
Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.
-- Daniel Pipes -
I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
-- Darrell Royal -
You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!
-- Dave Ramsey -
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.
-- Dawson Trotman -
We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.
-- Dick Bennett -
When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves .
-- Diogenes -
Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.
-- Doc Hastings -
What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
-- Don Meyer -
Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.
-- Dorothy Gilman -
Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet
-- Dr. Dre -
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,
-- Eddie McGuire -
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
-- Edith Hamilton -
We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go!
-- Edward I of England -
I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
-- Edward Teller -
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
-- Edward Teller -
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.
-- Elizabeth May -
Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.
-- Elizabeth Oakes Smith -
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
-- Elvis Costello -
If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting — and whether or not we leaders agree.
-- Ernest Bevin -
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
-- Fay Weldon -
One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.
-- Ferdinand Foch -
I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.
-- Floyd Patterson -
Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.
-- Francis Picabia -
Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.
-- Frank Chodorov -
There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.
-- Frank Laubach -
The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!
-- Franz Stampfl -
Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
-- Frederick William Robertson -
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Galeazzo Ciano -
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer -
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.
-- George C. Marshall -
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
-- George Orwell -
I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
-- George Orwell -
There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.
-- George W. Bush -
In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.
-- George W. Bush -
We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.
-- Grantland Rice -
Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
-- Greg Lake -
Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.
-- Grenville Kleiser -
An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.
-- Guy Finley -
Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.
-- Guy Finley -
Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.
-- Harold Innis -
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
-- Harvey Cushing
