Defeat Quotes - page 8

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character. (Cressida Cowell)
We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men. View quote
Lisa See
Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow. View quote
Margaret George
I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism. View quote
Cory Booker
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. View quote
Paul Brown
Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it. View quote
Ann Brashares
We must never shed tears That is the life form's defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it. View quote
Tite Kubo
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. View quote
Harvey Cushing
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. View quote
Francis Marion Crawford
Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame. View quote
P. C. Cast
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. (William Moulton Marston)
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying. View quote
Sonya Hartnett
I remember a decade ago at my first annual meeting in St. Louis. After my banquet remarks to a packed house, they presented me with a very special gift. It was a splendid hand-crafted musket. I admit I was overcome by the power of its simple symbolism. I looked at that musket and I thought of all of the lives given for that freedom. I thought of all of the lives saved with that freedom. It dawned on me that the doorway to all freedoms is framed by muskets. So I lifted that musket over my head for all to see. And as flashbulbs popped around the room, my heart and a few tears swelled up, and I uttered five unscripted words. When I did, that room exploded in sustained applause and hoots and shouts that seemed to last forever. ... So as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those words again for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, Mr. Gore: From my cold dead hands! View quote
Charlton Heston
There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory. View quote
Alison Goodman
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. View quote
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat. View quote
Allen Klein
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. View quote
Beverley Nichols
I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time. View quote
Birch Bayh
My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible. View quote
Brian Tee
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. (Christy Mathewson)
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
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. View quote
Denis Kearney
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. View quote
Doc Hastings
Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong. View quote
Doc Hastings