Defeated Quotes

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

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.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.