Defeat Quotes

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!

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.

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.