Defeated Quotes

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

The most important thing is not victory, the most important thing is don't get defeated.

As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.

To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory.

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

My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

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.

For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

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.

No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

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

We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision.

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

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

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

I never defeated a healthy opponent.

A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.

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

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.

A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

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

If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated.

When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

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

Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.