Quotes on Defeat

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

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

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

You're never beaten until you admit it

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.