#defeat

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#cannot #defeat #destined #i #those

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#ourselves #shouts #throng #triumph

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#come #conditions #deeper #defeat #essentially

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion. ↗

— George Foreman

#heavyweight #heavyweight champion #internal #real #revenue

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. ↗

— Ann Landers

#defeat #honor #might #much #success

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating. ↗

— Michael Landon

#dreaming #expectations #mind #one thing #self-defeating

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#capture #defeated #effort #endless #fiction

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#becomes #defeating #doing #end #in the end

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#defeat #doomed #few #i #i am

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#be strong #brave #build #defeat #enough