Quotes on Defeated

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

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.

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.

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

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.