Defeat Quotations | Page 5

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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.

There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

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.

I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.

It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope -- an ideology of hate -- excuse me --with an ideology of hope.

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

Good music always defeats bad luck

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.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.

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.

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

If Gordon Brown follows Blair's modernization agenda, he will lead the party to defeat at the next election.

If evil is being acted upon in the world, everybody has an obligation, especially if only you had the power. Only we understood the technology. Only we could defeat this guy.

I challenged them to bounce back after the defeat at Highland.

I applaud the Indonesian government's determination to defeat the terrorists and I offer our full support to the people of Bali as they recover from another atrocity so soon after the 2002 attack,

I don't want to be saying we nearly won again, because the margin of defeat does not matter,

He's most vulnerable now. The more times he's able to win in this district, the more difficult it will be to defeat him.

how he is demonized. It doesn't matter what the media does to ridicule him or misinterpret him or defeat him.

How on earth do they have the spirit and the heart to move forward? This was such a crushing defeat. We've got the momentum. We've got the unity. We've got the enthusiasm.

I believe that everyone in the administration, and throughout the Arab world, thought he could not survive the defeat that he did, ... We underestimated his skill and ruthlessness.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Gray Davis hasn't lost heart. Don't you lose heart. You go out and defeat this thing.

You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

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.

You should never leave something with a feeling of defeat.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

A wrong motive involves defeat.

A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process.

Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.

I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

I will do whatever I can to defeat Hillary Clinton.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.

I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.

I don't think any professional accepts defeat.

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

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

I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.

You can only surprise teams when you feel you are not supposed to or cannot defeat teams. And we expect to compete and win.

The House of Representatives recently passed an ESA reform bill that promises to give property owners 100 percent direct compensation for their lost rights. Incredibly, Senator Crapo's bill seeks to undo this. For property rights advocates, CRESA snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

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.

And I believe only with a strong America will we defeat this radical group, this apocalyptic group called ISIS. That's why when I'm president we are going to rebuild our intelligence capabilities. And they're going to tell us where the terrorists are. And a rebuilt U.S. military is going to destroy these terrorists.

The great loser today was George W. Bush. The man went away wounded, ... You could see defeat on his face.

The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost their main fighting force,

a great victory for all Canadians, but particularly Muslims in Canada, and a defeat for Islamic fundamentalists and those who are preaching it in Canada.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him

The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.

The French played better on key points -- even when we had break points they served perfectly. Our poor teamwork was not the reason for our defeat -- the French pair just played better today.

The frustration has been building and defeat has tightened the noose around Sven's neck. Once again punters are looking to get rid of the Swede and have forced the collapse in our price.

The first thing that comes to my mind, I feel this is the worst defeat we've endured in the seven-plus years I've been here.

The first two days were really, really rough. It was kind of hard to look at each other. But we just realized that dwelling on it and letting it defeat us already is not going to help us at all.

The first question is (having) enough votes to win defeat. It's also important that the filibuster remain as an option on the table. The filibuster is there for a reason.

The coach and the players know after the Italy defeat just how important this match is. We anticipate a strong reaction from the team.

There is no defeat except for those who give up.

God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

America will not run in defeat and we will not forget our responsibilities,

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up.

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

The greatest victory is defeat.

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

Defeat held no honor.

The king has been defeated but the defeat is not complete.

I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people you are facing.

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.

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

Woe to the conquered.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.