Defeated famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
-- Agatha Christie -
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
-- Al Sharpton -
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
-- Alain Badiou -
Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated
-- Albert Meltzer -
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.
-- Aldrich Ames -
A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
-- Amartya Sen -
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
-- Billy Higgins -
Every lesbian spearchucker is hoping I get defeated.
-- Bob Dornan -
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
-- C. L. R. James -
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
-- C. L. R. James -
[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.
-- Chuck Smith -
I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
-- Claire McCaskill -
People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don’t compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path-such people are happy, such people are truly great.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.
-- Dean Koontz -
Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
-- Dogen -
One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.
-- Ferdinand Foch -
It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.
-- Frederick The Great -
I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.
-- Glenda Jackson -
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
-- Grover Cleveland -
See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.
-- Guy Finley -
There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned
-- Henry Timrod -
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.
-- Hilaire Belloc -
Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
-- Horace Greeley -
The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated
-- Ibn Taymiyyah -
I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.
-- Ivo Andric -
You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.
-- Joel Osteen -
A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.
-- John Harbaugh -
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
-- John Piper -
To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory.
-- Jozef Pilsudski -
You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?
-- Katie MacAlister -
You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
-- Kay Arthur -
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
-- Ken Follett -
Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.
-- Lin Biao -
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
-- Margaret Halsey -
It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
-- Marisha Pessl -
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
-- Mark Richard -
Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!
-- Matthew Quick -
Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.
-- Maurice de Saxe -
When nothing was, then God was there, Had nothing been God would have been; My being has defeated me, Had I not been, what would have been.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib -
Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.
-- Morihei Ueshiba -
Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.
-- Nicki Minaj -
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.
-- Paulo Coelho -
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.
-- Raymond E. Feist -
It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.
-- Richard A. Knaak -
Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.
-- Richard Stallman -
Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.
-- Saddam Hussein -
Muslims cannot be defeated by others. We Muslims are not defeated by our enemies, but instead, we are defeated by our own selves.
-- Sheikh Abdullah -
Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.
-- Storm Jameson -
He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.
-- Sun Tzu -
My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.
-- Tsukahara Bokuden -
The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.
-- Tullian Tchividjian -
The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.
-- Victor LaValle -
In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
-- Walker Percy -
If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.
-- Warren W. Wiersbe -
Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
-- William Carlos Williams -
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
-- William Lloyd Garrison -
One should respect a defeated opponent!
-- Alexander Khalifman -
Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God.
-- Charles S. Price -
Most people feel very strongly that Donald Trump is a threat to the nation. He must be defeated.
-- Jonathan Tasini -
The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people.
-- Moshe Ya'alon -
Musashi, who trained himself, became a master swordsman who was never defeated.
-- Kerr Cuhulain -
It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly erase the concept of feminism.
-- Laura Mulvey
