Top 264 Defeating Quotes & Sayings

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army.

Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

Defeating Hillary Clinton in a campaign unlike anything we've seen in our lifetimes.

You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.

We need to be focused on defeating radical Islamic terrorists.

In 1817, Czar Alexander I personally founded the Society of Israelite Christians but had less luck defeating Judaism than he'd had defeating Napoleon; gentile serfs and merchants in areas bordering the Pale even showed disturbing new signs of 'Judaizing.'

Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?

Putin has an obvious problem. His country's economy is in stagnation. He needs to constantly be pointing a figure at who is at fault. America is at fault. He needs to show those fronts - those directions in which he is defeating America. In Syria, for example, in Syria, he is defeating America; not ISIS, he's defeating America.

My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.

I've done things, from the Olympics to defeating two of the greatest fighters of all time.

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

Even for defeating extremists, you need more than a military strategy.

Broadway is so defeating for the most part that it doesn't encourage people to be as tenacious as they should be.

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

Hollywood continues to present the US army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.

I believe most evangelicals know that defeating Obama is at heart of our country's future.

I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.

here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I don't think World War III is going to happen in Syria.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It's very defeating.

I witnessed first-hand the self-defeating results of putting yourself under so much pressure to perform.

Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.

Americans have always risen to the moment, from defeating the scourge of fascism to bringing down the Iron Curtain.

I think Donald Trump believes in defeating ISIS, resolving issues in the Middle East.

Even after defeating India, I still have the highest respect for them as opponents.

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves.

I've dedicated my life in public service to defeating climate change.

Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

But after defeating Carlos Condit, I've shown I deserve to have a title shot.

Today the situation in India is such that we should make the poor strong so that they become partners in defeating poverty.