Your problems are not there to defeat you, they are there to increase you.
I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into.
When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.
Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.
Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.
To cease to love -- that is defeat.
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.
To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.
A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.
You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.
Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.
It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.
To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.
Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.