Top 314 Defeats Quotes & Sayings

At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis!

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

Will power defeats all powers

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Unfortunately, defeats are part of the game.

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

I remember that in 2017, when we won everything, we started the pre-season badly, with defeats.

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Richard Curtis has an encyclopedic knowledge of ABBA, which defeats even mine.

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us

Wherever the ignorant triumphs, over there the greatest defeats are on the way!

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.

The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.

I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Sometimes you learn the most from your defeats.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

There are those who say that defeats teach a lot, but also learning to win is not bad.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats. It is because of her defeats that she is to me the lovely one. Out of her defeats she has been born a new quality in woman. I have a name for it. I call it Tandy. I made up the name when I was a true dreamer and before my body became vile. It is the quality of being strong to be loved. It is something men need from women and that they do not get.

Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.

Those are the liberals who don't want to win. Those are the liberals who are in love with noble defeats, and I'm sick and tired of noble defeats.

Good music always defeats bad luck

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

Big defeats make us learn.

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.