#defeat

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #defeat




Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.


Phil Ochs


#art #attempt #defeat #even #expect

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.


Wilma Rudolph


#again #champion #crushing #defeat #go

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!


William Lloyd Garrison


#may #never #our #personally #principles

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.


George Soros


#defeat #earth #external #getting #most

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.


Arlen Specter


#doubt #nation #no doubt #other #our

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


#conflict #could #defeated #germany #given

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.


Kin Hubbard


#defeat #except #failure #inherent #insurmountable

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


#biased #both #crimes #data #dead

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.


Huey Newton


#being #bring #chamber #community #consciousness

their heart grew cold they let their wings down


Sappho


#defeat #giving-in #giving-up #imagery #poetry