Quotes about Defeat

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.