Quotes with defeated

  • A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
  • Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
  • Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
  • When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
  • Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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  • Arthur Calwell It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
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  • Napoleon Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Muhammad Ali 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.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Ernest Hemingway A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Jan Christian Smuts A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Maya Angelou We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.
    On War (1832) Ch. 17
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Richard Nixon A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Marilyn vos Savant Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
    Marilyn vos Savant
    American magazine columnist, author and lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Ernest Hemingway But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Richard Nixon Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Lawrence Durrell For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential, the imagination.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Henry Rollins Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Martin Luther King I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Assata Shakur I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that people don't believe that they can make a difference. So a lot of times we're defeated before we even start. We've become consumers of a world vision, of Kentucky Fried Chicken, of McDonalds.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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