Defeat Quotes - page 6

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end. (Carl Jung)
But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people. View quote
Ashraf Dehghani
I don't know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai, for his strength, for his wisdom and for his courage to lead this country, first in defeat of the Taliban and now a democratic and unified Afghanistan. And I can tell you I am with foreign ministers and with heads of state all over the world. I sit in the councils of NATO. I sit with the EU. I sit with people all over the world and there is great admiration for your president and also for what the Afghan people are doing here. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. View quote
Robert Collier
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat. View quote
Conor McGregor
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. View quote
Edwin Markham
This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat. View quote
Enver Hoxha
Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer. reported by Bill Walton. (John Wooden)
You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat. View quote
Samuel Youd
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so. View quote
Russell Baker
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. View quote
Russell Baker
If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory. View quote
Yoshida Shoin
The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale. View quote
Walther von Brauchitsch
There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us. View quote
Che Guevara
When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves." View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool. View quote
Edward Teller
Unkindness may do much, And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. View quote
William Shakespeare
The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries. (Tim Buck)
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. View quote
Sallust
The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened. View quote
Alfred Rosenberg
To those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. View quote
Barack Obama
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them. View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer