Defeat Quotes

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

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.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.

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

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.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

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

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

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

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

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

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

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

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.