To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
I usually don't talk for three days after a defeat. Then you have an epiphany and realise it's just a game.
Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
To defeat Islamic extremist terrorism, we must put them on defense. If they are at war against us - which they have declared - we must commit ourselves to unconditional victory against them.
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
History has shown that challenging an incumbent president in the primary almost inevitably leads to defeat in the general election.
In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and embitter French politics and culture and lead to its defeat in 1940.
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
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.