Defeated Quotes - Page 20

• [Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.

  Chuck Smith

  Authority And Power, People, Satan

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• We have both a weak self and a strong self; the two are completely different. If we allow our weak side to dominate, we will be defeated. The thought ,"I am still young and have a lot of time, so I can relax and take life easy" is a function of our own weakness.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Self, Two

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• What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fighting, Winning, Want

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• Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, War, Jewels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.

  Andrew Davidson

  Loss, Air, Forever

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.48, Canongate Books

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• But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

  Charles Dickens

  Fighting, Words Of Wisdom, Shadow

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.391

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• So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Heaven, Victory, Age

  Gregory A. Boyd (1997). “God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict”, p.254, InterVarsity Press

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• A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Men, May

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• To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, Views, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1951). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 18 June, 1779 to 30 September, 1780”

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• It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

  Marcel Proust

  Military, War, Army

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• When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?

  Ellen Glasgow

  War, Civilization, Evil

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• The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

  Franz Kafka

  Seduction, Assuming, Sometimes

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Success through the eyes of one once defeated, is true VICTORY.

  Jim Cramer

  Motivational, Eye, Victory

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• If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Victory, Problem, Possibility

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2016). “The Bumps Are What You Climb On: Encouragement for Difficult Days”, p.54, Baker Books

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• Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

  Thomas Mallon

  Distance, Letters, Mail

  Thomas Mallon (2009). “Yours Ever: People and Their Letters”, p.3, Vintage

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• God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

  James Dobson

  Heart, Names, Tears

  James C. Dobson (2012). “When God Doesn't Make Sense”, p.198, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Victory lies in not getting defeated.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Lying, Victory

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• How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.

  Ida Tarbell

  Children, Work, Sleep

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• Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

  John Masefield

  Strong, Battle, Shows

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections. I trust the measure will turn out well. It is a great relief to me. Defeat in this way, after a full and public hearing before this [Electoral] Commission, is not mortifying in any degree, and success will be in all respects more satisfactory.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Hearing, Degrees, Relief

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• Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Pain, Sadness, Profound

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006). “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln”, p.724, Simon and Schuster

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• In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

  Walker Percy

  World, Goodness, Destined

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Musashi, who trained himself, became a master swordsman who was never defeated.

  Kerr Cuhulain

  Masters, Swordsman

  Kerr Cuhulain (2002). “Full Contact Magick: A Book of Shadows for the Wiccan Warrior”, p.187, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Where is the "unexplored land" but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is "unexplored land," to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.

  Henry David Thoreau

  New York, Ambition, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.277, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, War, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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