Quotes on Defeat

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

Author: Roy Acuff

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Author: Tony Blair

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Author: Paul Brown

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

Author: Steven Brust

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

Author: Jonathan Carroll

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

Author: Paul Cellucci

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

Author: Cesar Chavez

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

Author: Lydia Child

We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

Author: Nick Clooney

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Author: Nick Clooney

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

Author: Roy Cohn

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.

Author: William Colby

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Author: Francis Crawford

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

Author: Stafford Cripps

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

Author: Russell Crowe

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Author: Josephus Daniels

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

Author: Thelma Drake

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Author: George Eliot

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

Author: Rio Ferdinand

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Author: F. Fitzgerald

The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

Author: Franz Halder

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Author: Albert Hart

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.

Author: Doc Hastings

We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.

Author: Doc Hastings

Man is not made for defeat.

Author: Ernest Hemingway

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Author: Ernest Hemingway

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Author: Abdul Kalam

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

Author: Denis Kearney

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.

Author: Jahangir Khan

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Author: Louis L'Amour

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Author: Tom Landry

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

Author: Joshua Logan

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Author: Henry Longfellow

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Author: Henry Longfellow

Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world.

Author: Kenny Marchant

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?

Author: John McCain

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

Author: Kelly Miller

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

Author: Slobodan Milosevic

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Author: Ashley Montagu

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Author: Ashley Montague

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Author: Beverley Nichols

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Author: Richard Nixon

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Author: Quintilian

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Author: Charles Rangel

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Author: Pat Riley

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Author: Pat Riley

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Author: Sallust

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Author: Wallis Simpson

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Author: Bishop South

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Author: Robert South

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

Author: Edward Teller

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Author: Queen Victoria

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

Author: Henry Waxman

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Author: Zig Ziglar

Success is not determined by the number of victories, but by the depth of resilience in defeat.

Author: Sophia Torres

Success is not defined by the number of victories, but by the resilience in facing defeat.

Author: Sophia Daniels

Success is not defined by the number of victories, but by the strength exhibited in defeat.

Author: Samantha Wilkins

Success is not defined by obstacles overcome, but by perseverance in the face of defeat.

Author: Samantha Johnson