Defeated Quotes

“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?'

'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly.

'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ...

'Finn?'

'"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy.”
― Shaun Hick

“Arrogant people beat each other.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“When you feel too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, and too determined to be defeated, you are undeniably on the way to success.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“But I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A man who has no discipline to keep a deaf
ear to words birthed out of anger, jealousy and envy will spend all his life fighting a defeated war.”
― Victor Vote

“There's nothing there.

There's no hate, bitterness
or animosity towards you,
but there is also no desire
to reconnect, converse, or be
close with you either.

Because when I let it go,
I fully let you go as well.

You may never see or hear
from me again but, trust me,
there is only love on my end.”
― Morgan Richard Olivier

“A fool tries to outshine the sun; the wise gets closer to the sun and learns the art of shining.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Но кто отдался на милость противника, тому не помогут ни просьбы, ни уговоры. У победителя свои права, и всегда они оборачиваются бесправием для побежденного. Vae victis.”
― Стефан Цвейг, Marie Stuart

“Under normal circumstances the liar is defeated by reality, for which there is no substitute; no matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough, even if he enlists the help of computers, to cover the immensity of factuality.”
― Hannah Arendt , Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, and Thoughts on Politics and Revolution

“You may loose battles, you may even loose wars, but you are really defeated and utterly annihilated if you loose faith and hope”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Except for a few special cases, title to every parcel of real property derives from an act of violence, more or less remote, and ownership is only as valid as the strength and will required to maintain it. This is the lesson of history, whether you like it or not.”

“The mourning of defeated peoples, while pathetic and tragic, is usually futile,” said Kelse.”
― Jack Vance, The Gray Prince

“With God, we will never be backed into a corner because He is bigger than any room.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When I think about the negative things that happened in my life, I don’t feel defeated; I feel stronger.”
― Nadine Sadaka Boulos

“Hold this thought: Right when you are most defeated–suicidal, perhaps–exhausted, positive of perpetual failure: this is when the epiphany is likely to arrive. One needs to be beaten down to think, and to think so as to escape. To escape death or boredom or the second act that simply will not do as you wish. Or the marriage that is stalled. Whatever is bearing down on you is a great teacher. Calm down and listen and crawl from beneath it a better person.”
― Harold Pinter

“Sometimes we reach the point where we’ve had enough of life. At that point, maybe the real truth is that we’ve had enough of our attitude.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“History has become littered with the broken souls of the defeated.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance

“To be broken means that the best of my resources lay shattered and strewn about. And it is then and only then that I am at my peak, for it is at these times that there is less of me to get in the way of all of God.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Once defeated one begins to dispel any doubt.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I would suggest that many of our perceived defeats are actually God saving us from the things that would have defeated us had we actually achieved them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Defeat is ninety five percent the condition and attitude of the heart and not the result of the struggle. We are defeated before we even put up the fight, that's why psychological warfare works!”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Elizabeth put her face in her hands, knowing that she was far more than a few cold months away from normal.”
― Anna Godbersen, Envy

“Ultimately surrendering to God is the natural outcome of the reality that we had defeated ourselves by our choice to deny Him in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Would you think it wise to step into the ring with someone who has fought for thousands upon thousands of years and never been defeated? Yet, when you decide to challenge the ‘truth,’ that’s exactly who you’re stepping into the ring with.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You face failure, not the moment you are defeated, but the moment you give up fighting.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“It doesn’t matter what’s coming at us. God defeated it before it ever left wherever it was coming from.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough