Defeated Quotes

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Truth, Evil

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

Power, Win, Down

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

May, Encounter, Defeats

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
Ronald Reagan

God, Give, Unless

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Marcus Garvey

Life, Confidence, Self

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

Politics, Money, Become

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu

War, Win, While

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Death, Live, Daily

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
Charlie Sheen

Fire, Done, Words

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby

Father, Him, American

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Confidence, Self

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway

Made, Defeat, Destroyed

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Barack Obama

Real, Found, Pursued

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
Joel Osteen

Life, Money, Through

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon

Defeat, Quit, Finished

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren

Life, Love, Age

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
Pope John Paul II

Love, History, Ireland

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Life, Purpose, Greater

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

Giving, Often, Makes

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon

Finished, Quits

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein

Life, Human, Spirit

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
Henry Rollins

Hope, Person, Before

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Robert E. Lee

Fight, Long, Christian

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
Cao Cao

Enemy, Battle, Hand

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust

Good, Evil, Means

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Virgil

Enemy, Whether, Strategy

We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.
Michael Bloomberg

Love, Yourself, Liberty

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
Chinua Achebe

Women, Men, Different

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Before, Study

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