Defeat Quotations | Page 4

This is about as bitter a defeat as you could have.

This is a major defeat for the enemies of freedom in Iraq and around the world, and sends a message that despite the best efforts of the terrorists, people throughout Iraq are eager to govern themselves and live in liberty.

This is a damage-limitation move and a snap victory from the jaws of defeat.

Although Western society has emphasized the importance of high self-esteem, the more important thing may be to have self-compassion, the ability to treat oneself kindly in the face of failure, rejection, defeat and other negative events.

America and its allies face many risks and problems in Iraq, but it is all too easy to snatch defeat from the jaws of uncertainty.

There was no way I could understand our defeat. I had to grieve over our loss before I could look to the future. Where could our lives possibly be as meaningful as they might have been in the White House?

This match was worth more than a defeat. You need a bit of luck to beat Real and we didn't have it tonight.

This is the revenge match for us because that 3-0 defeat hurt us because of the way it damaged our image and our fans.

This is the most important election in my lifetime. We must defeat George Bush in November, ... John Kerry has the life experience, the personal character and strength.

There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan

At least we played with heart and desire - two things that were missing in the Wolfsburg defeat,

Atlantic Canada's culture of defeat will be hard to overcome as long as Atlantic Canada is actually physically trailing the rest of the country.

As well as scoring it's going to be vital for us to keep a clean sheet. People say that 2-1 away is a good result but we have to stop them scoring. It's always difficult to defeat a team with their history but we're here for a reason and we have proved that we can reach the semi-final. I don't know how they will play but they'll be aware of the fact that they are leading the tie.

According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.

It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.

It was bittersweet. For me, it's tough to accept the fact that things didn't work out that well for me in Miami. On the other hand, it's a fresh start here, and it's an opportunity, and it's all you can ask for. It's a positive right now, but at the same time it's tough to swallow a defeat a little bit.

It was difficult for the congressman to see people whose sole mission was to defame and defeat Mr. DeLay be successful at that.

It was a very hard defeat to swallow.

It was a terrible defeat but, for us, it never happened.

It's a big victory for separation of religion and state and a huge defeat for Islamic fundamentalism.

It's a good win, especially after we had a tough defeat (in the Feb. 21 semifinals) against Larkin. We wanted to play for a championship, but we'll take third place. Elgin has been playing great basketball, but we just found a way to win.

It's a defeat but I'd rather suffer a good beating like tonight's than lose four times 1-0.

It remains the case that on any objective analysis the prospects for a settlement are good, and we have to work towards that with renewed vigor and determination. Democracy must defeat evil.

It's a huge game for us. Defeat is not worth thinking about.

It's a highly motivated England team that will come to Paris. I think that this time their motivation is not against France. They are furious with themselves and it will make them even more dangerous, but we are not going to stand by and pay the price for their defeat in Edinburgh.

It's now about how we react to the defeat in our cup-tie on Saturday and then the three or four league matches after that. They will go a long way to deciding our top-six aspirations.

It's the only tool the enemy really has left in order to be able to take us on and cause casualties, ... And when we defeat that one method, it's over.

It's going to be impossible to defeat him unless he turns out to be an ax murderer and there's been no evidence of that presented, ... It's up to the civil rights groups to make the best case they can make.

It's going to be a battle, ... We probably do have enough votes in the House to defeat it.

Democrats need to be not only gracious in defeat, but positive about the future.

Despite all that happened to the football team last season, they've really turned it around this fall. To defeat Jacksonville State last week was great because they are a ranked team.

That means political unity, which is absolutely essential to defeat the insurgency, does not exist in Iraq, ... Meet the Press.

It's much more important to raise money to defeat (Prop. 77) than it is to raise money for their own re-election.

It's so hard to defeat perceptions. I feel like whenever you have the opportunity, you take it and show people what it is that you do.

Everyone is good up there. Mike is good enough to defeat anyone at this level. He's good enough to come back and score. All he has to do is wrestle his match and he'll do fine.

Everyone at the club was disappointed with the Hibs defeat, so it is crucial we bounce back against Falkirk on Saturday. We have always reacted well to a loss in my time at the club so hopefully we can do the same this weekend.

The biggest challenge at the national level is to defeat communal forces for which the support of the Left parties was essential but the party is opposed to the Left in Kerala because UDF's aim is to ensure economic development and social harmony,

The biggest reason for our defeat is that we lost a lot of seats in urban areas where we were supposed have major support,

the best line of defense is on the ground ... and once a dangerous person is on board, it's already a defeat in itself.

The barrage of negative ads seems to be influencing voters and helping to defeat Proposition 79,

The bad results in the past few months were the defeat by Albania at the opening of our qualification campaign and the home defeat by Ukraine. But a win always turns the tables.

The bad news for the governor is that about half the voters (48 percent) say that Schwarzenegger's decision to call a special election, and the defeat of his ballot measures, has made them less likely to vote for him for re-election.

The authority of the Commander-in-Chief to engage and defeat the enemy encompasses the capture and detention of enemy combatants wherever found, including within the nation's borders. That is particularly true in the current conflict in view of the nature of the September 11 attacks, which were perpetrated by combatants who had assimilated into the civilian population and launched their attacks from within the United States,

It's hard to conceive of something that could hurt New York more than the elimination of state and local tax deductibility. ... We will do everything in our power to defeat this pernicious proposal.

It's difficult to swallow the defeat. We started well and took the lead, but unfortunately we couldn't sustain it or extend it. It's hard for the players, but they should be proud. In the end, this is football.

It's important to show our victories but also our defeat of the mean-spirited anti-gay legislation being put forward by the opposition. It's really an attack on children and families.

It's tough, but not 28 points tough. That's defeat. I know we had a lot of turnovers, we have a lot of young players. Other than that, we just have to compete and listen to what coach says.

They will have lots of problems after being eliminated by a team that they felt they could easily beat.

There's what I'll call best practices and then there's reality. Based on our research over the past two to three years, there are significant differences in performance results that companies are experiencing with their security programs. There are some common things that are done very well among the best-class enterprises suffering the least amount of breaches and damages. But even having said that, there's probably no way to defeat a serious security threat today and it wouldn't matter what the tool is. The only way to do that would be to unplug the computers.

This is legislation that consumers deserve if we are to help them and our economy defeat the growing menace of identity theft.

I want to make sure that this party fields the strongest possible candidate that can defeat Hillary Clinton. So I think it is very important that we have a very strong candidate. And until we are comfortable that we have that strongest possible candidate, we need to continue to look.

Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

After that loss in our gym, some doubt did creep in my mind if we could win another one or not. But the kids wouldn't let anybody get down and we all just kept each other up and working hard.

That same kind of destructive stuff is done on the left as well as the right, though at the moment I'm finding the right to be in particular, as we are talking the day after John Kerry's defeat in his bid to beat George Bush.

The calories are working against you for heart disease. Obesity is not what you want for eating chocolate because that will defeat all the benefit.

I'm definitely proud of how the girls came out and played with intensity and heart. This after a 27-point defeat the last time we played them. I knew we could compete, but they had to come out and play with intensity. They showed that they could play with the top team in the league.

I'm really proud of this team. We had some real good practices, and they believed they could win. Everyone did their part even in defeat by not giving up bonus points. We also did a nice job getting bonus points at critical times.

I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.

I learned a lesson tonight. The kids learned a lesson. Defeat is not an elective. It's a required course.

I never expected this type of game in a mid-week contest with Cumberland. Trent pitched an outstanding game and I just hate to see him lose with this type of effort. I don't know if this defeat will help or hurt going into our Southern States Athletic Conference series with Reinhardt this weekend.

I'm sure you've heard the word ambassador a lot today. That's the way he represented the sport in public; he was a great sportsman and handled victory and defeat with equal style and class. But I also had the privilege of seeing the leadership he gave to our industry in private, when the cameras were not on.

I'm really looking for a clear signal that in fact he wants to defeat the government,

I'm kind of glad we had a game like this without having to suffer a defeat. But it's a wake-up call when these kids understand that it's not going to get any easier, it's going to get tougher.

I'm saying those things here and now out of a belief in the State of Israel's immense power and the immeasurable courage of its soldiers, military leaders, and security forces to hit any enemy and defeat any terrorist. Out of this sense of strength we must act with all our power in order to create hope for a different life for our young generation and that of our Palestinian neighbors.

In a low-turnout special election, it's the only item on the ballot. The opponents - who would be well-funded - would be able to focus on it and have a great opportunity to defeat it. In a general election, there's so many things on the ballot that the average voter is lost.

I'm happy to concede defeat. It's a two-horse race now.

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

If Parliament should ultimately defeat these measures, then whoever did so would have to take responsibility for raising taxes on Canadians,

If people feel negative about money, or they don't feel entitled to it, those people have a lot of what I call 'poverty thinking' and that will defeat the other traits that enable the millionaire to achieve. Self-made millionaires feel justified and worthy in their use of money.

In spite of the declarations, you will notice in the career of the same Krishna that He underwent defeat in His efforts or endeavors, on a few occasions you must have also noted that those defeats too, were part of the drama, which He had planned, and He Himself directed.

I really don't consider this a defeat because I am skating better and better every race.

I remember the intellectual fashion for American decline in the 1970s. There was the stunning defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam , rioting in Detroit and Newark that suggested the social fabric was coming apart, talk of Rust Belt America unable to compete with the Japanese, and a sense the Russian bear was on the march.

I remember the intellectual fashion for American decline in the 1970s, ... There was the stunning defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam , rioting in Detroit and Newark that suggested the social fabric was coming apart, talk of Rust Belt America unable to compete with the Japanese, and a sense the Russian bear was on the march.

I really get a rush every time I defeat someone who I know is doing everything they can to beat me. That pushes me, even when I may be in an even match or go in as an underdog.

In victory or defeat, I will take this group of kids out on the court and be proud to be with them. They can hold their heads high and be proud of what they've done.

In order to become victorious, one must defeat the true beast within...

In fact, Senator Reid's leadership and confidence that the filibuster was the right thing to do was critical to the defeat of the drilling provision last year.

In 2004, the ball rolled for us, this time it rolled for Nigeria. That is law of the sport, and that's how we should look at it. We accept our defeat in the spirit of fair play.

Iraqis will vote 'yes' to the new constitution because they know if necessary they can amend some of its articles in the future, ... Terrorists will meet their final defeat in their final battle against the people of Iraq.

clear evidence that Iraq had taken advance actions at certain of the locations planned for inspection in order to defeat the purposes of inspection.

Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms.

Candidates who come within a narrow margin of defeat have a right to a discovery recount. There's definitely options for candidates who wish to pursue that route.

Can you eat a meal with a single finger? When the five fingers work in unison, the stomach is filled in five minutes! So, no attachment should be developed; no wish is to be welcomed, nothing is to be sought for; and no defeat is to be taken to heart, without solving deep into the consequences.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

I don't know if that result will give us an advantage or not. You can look at it two ways. They might be on a downer and maybe the long journey back home will have affected them and they could be a wee bit less focused than they normally would be for the game. But they could just as easily be fired up - after a heavy defeat you often want to get back to winning as soon as possible.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

By the end of the miner's strike I was defining myself as a socialist, clued in and looking for the next opportunity to defeat the Tories.

He told me, 'Don't you worry: They will not destroy me or break me. I shall defeat them all.

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS.

I think there are a number of issues that we should be addressing. I have put forth a plan to defeat ISIS.

We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again. And we're not putting ground troops into Syria. We're going to defeat ISIS without committing American ground troops.

I will take a backseat to no one in keeping America safe. I have a very clear set of proposals about how we defeat ISIS.

It's like [Donald's Trump] plan to defeat ISIS. He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.

We have to defeat ISIS. That is my highest counterterrorism goal.

I think we need to go after Baghdadi, as well, make that one of our organizing principles. Because we've got to defeat ISIS, and we've got to do everything we can to disrupt their propaganda efforts online.

I intend to defeat ISIS, to do so in a coalition with majority Muslim nations.

We've got to keep fighting, and I will defeat ISIS.