You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.
Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.
Good music always defeats bad luck
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!
You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
New York is not a city to return to in defeat.
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.
You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.
I learned early in my life that sometimes I'm going to lose. I don't like it, but I accept it, meaning that I understand it's going to happen. But I don't see it like defeat; I see it like a learning process. Then if there's nothing to learn, I move on.
Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.
We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.
An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.
I will tell you that Hillary [Clinton] will tell you to go to her website and read all about how to defeat ISIS, which she could have defeated by never having it, you know, get going in the first place. Right now, it's getting tougher and tougher to defeat them, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nations.
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.