Defeat Quotes

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

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Mobilize people to vote and to re-elect Clinton as the only way to defeat.

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

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

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

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.

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

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.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

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

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.

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

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.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

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

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

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.

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.