Defeat Quotes - page 9

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. (Frank Gaffney)
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. View quote
George Lois
Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them. View quote
Georgette Mosbacher
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. View quote
George Armstrong Custer
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. View quote
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green. View quote
John Thorn
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women. View quote
Kate Smith
I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it. View quote
Mary-Louise Parker
I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody. View quote
Mojo Nixon
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors. View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense? (Phylicia Rashad)
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. View quote
Pat Riley
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game. View quote
Pat Riley
We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations. View quote
Paul Cellucci
The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. View quote
Roy Acuff
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves. View quote
Roy Cohn
When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club. View quote
Ruud van Nistelrooy
As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better. View quote
Stanislas Wawrinka
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. View quote
Tahar Ben Jelloun
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. View quote
Zebulon Pike
I return to economics and to economists, and to the question of why the profession's directions have evolved in the manners evident from this book. A major conservative economist once explained that a source of his antipathy to government traced back to the defeat of his southern ancestors by a larger north economy. Here is a similar factoid. Joan Robinson once wrote that her opposition to having the U. K. enter the European Market was due to the fact that she "had more friends in [Nehru's] India than on the continent.”. (Paul Samuelson)
War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests. View quote
Germaine Greer
We're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat and we can now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success. View quote
John McCain
They're trying to destroy my family, so I take great umbrage with that. And defeat is not an option. They picked a fight with a warlock. View quote
Charlie Sheen
The popular rallies at Rabaa al-Adawiya and other squares across Egypt will defeat despotism and terrorism in the long run. But in the meantime, any solution that fails to restore the public's confidence in the ballot box and falls short of alleviating the sense of victimhood in the Morsi camp will be doomed to failure. View quote
Tawakkol Karman