For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. . . . Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.
Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.
But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.
Will power defeats all powers
Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.
Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.
Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.
If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.
Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella.