#defeat

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#delayed #gotten #long #many #struggles

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character. ↗

— Alan Alda

#authentic #character #defeat #fun #i

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. ↗

— Russell Baker

#goal #him #inanimate #man #objects

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#al gore #back #being #bunch #chance

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#enough #every #into #live #long

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

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #before #being #cries #defeated

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. ↗

— Tony Blair

#am #believes #beset #between #britain

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

#defeat #defeated #just #meeting #minds

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#death #defeated #die #inglorious #live

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. ↗

— George Carlin

#bookstore #defeat #i #me #purpose