Defeated Quotes: Overcoming Life's Struggles with Words of Wisdom

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

Richard M. Nixon, President

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"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, President

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

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

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

Henry Fielding, Novelist

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

Arthur Calwell, Politician

"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"

Cicero, Philosopher

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

Ronald Reagan, President

"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, Comedian

"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., Minister

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Maya Angelou, Poet

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

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

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

Sallust, Historian

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

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

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

Barack Obama, President

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge"

Grover Cleveland, President

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

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"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, Criminal

"If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated"

Caryl Chessman, Criminal

"In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated"

Brad Henry, Politician

"It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time"

Dennis Cardoza, Politician

"There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"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, General

"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"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, Actress

"The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated"

Franjo Tudjman, Statesman

"When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous"

Norm MacDonald, Actor

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