Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane
Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.
You defeat defeatism with confidence.
Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.
As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may be represented as a competitor in the realm of ideas to be considered on the basis of its merits, but this is mere disguise. Like the Mafia, if Christianity fails to defeat its competition by legitimate means (which is a forgone conclusion), it resorts to strong-arm tactics. Have faith or be damned - this biblical doctrine alone is enough to exclude Christianity from the domain of reason.
We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.
It's not a defeat nor an obstacle that is going to get in the way of our dream, my dream continues, the journey continues
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.
Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.
You may glory in a team triumphant. . . But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.