Defeat serves to enlighten us.
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.
Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.
A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.
I congratulate the outgoing Nigeria President Mr Goodluck Jonathan for his grace in conceding defeat.
the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.
Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.
ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.