#defeat

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#americans #decline #defeat #docility #exhaustion

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#bad-parenting #beating #inspirational-quotes #jonathan-anthony-burkett #kids

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#defeat #inspirational #learn #man #motivational

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. ↗

— Jordan Belfort

#goal #inspiration #motivation #self-defeat #inspirational

The best way to compete is to get defeat. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#defeat #fight #inspirational #warrior #inspirational

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#defeated #destroyed #made #man

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. ↗

— Roy Acuff

#democrats #done #ever #governor #greatest

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted. ↗

— Andrew Bernstein

#hero #must #need #undefeated

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#defeat #force #history #ideologies #longer

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. ↗

— Steven Brust

#contest #defeat #end #foreknowledge #honorable