"If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated"

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits"

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily"

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

"The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number"

"The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts"

"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies"

"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"

"We are never defeated unless we give up on God"

"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"

"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"