Defeated Quotes - Page 20

• My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.

  Tsukahara Bokuden

  Art, Different, Art Is

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• Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Giving Up, Military

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• All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Battle

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• ...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. Beauty grown sad with its eternity Made you of us, and of the dim grey sea. Our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait, For God has bid them share an equal fate; And when at last defeated in His wars, They have gone down under the same white stars, We shall no longer hear the little cry Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Stars, War

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.123, Penguin

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• Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

  Alan Watts

  Losing, Chaos, Always Losing

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.72, Sounds True

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• I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or not. Feminists who think they can abolish the sex trade are in a state of massive delusion. Only a ruthless, fascist regime of vast scale could eradicate the rogue sex impulse that is indistinguishable from the life force. Simply in the Western world, pagan sexuality has survived 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian persecution and is hardly going to be defeated by a few feminists whacking at it with their brooms.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Sex, Gay

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• You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated.
  If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.

  George Watsky

  Thinking, Doing You, Might

  Song: Never Let it Die, Album: All You Can Do, 2014

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• You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.

  Billy Mills

  Sports, Long, Failing

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• Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heartbreak, Home, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.23, Anchor

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• He looked at her. 'In order to finish, I'll have to have defeated six Infected, Dusk, and Vengeous himself.' Yeah. So?' The Infected I can manage.' She frowned. 'And Vengeous? I mean, you can beat him, right?' Well,' he said, "I can certainly try. And trying is half the battle.' What's the other half?' He shrugged. 'Hitting him more times than he hits me.

  Derek Landy

  Mean, Order, Battle

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• I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where you don't want me to.

  Frank O'Hara

  Valleys, Pieces, Want

  Frank O'Hara (1967). “Meditations in an Emergency”, p.40, Grove Press

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• Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

  Kate DiCamillo

  Real, Dragons, Fairy Tale

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• This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Unusual Things, Victory, Share

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• 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

  Rocks, Feet, Suffering

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.42, Grove Press

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• We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Adversity, Storm

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• Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Sleep, Love Is, Choices

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.82, Grove Press

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• We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers. But rather than be bound and defeated by our insignificance, we are bold because we exercise our will anyway, despite the ephemeral and delicate presence we have in this desert, on this planet, in this universe.

  Aron Ralston

  Exercise, Desert, Unyielding

  Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

  Tori Amos

  Feelings, Way, Lasts

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• The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

  David Nicholls

  Party, Cities, Said

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• People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated.

  Lois Gibbs

  Hands, People, Needs

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• Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Disadvantages, Conqueror

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• At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Sarcastic, Father, Night

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• I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.

  Tim Cahill

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

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• I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

  Jan Karon

  Color, Editors, Fiction

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• Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world's beauty and love were on the edge of destruction, theirs would still be the only side to be on; defeated love would still be love, hate's victory would not make it other than it was.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hate, Night, August

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