Defeats Quotes

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

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

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.