#defeat

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#come #conditions #deeper #defeat #essentially

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion. ↗

— George Foreman

#heavyweight #heavyweight champion #internal #real #revenue

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#defeat #economic #economic power #inexorably #militarily

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#after #armed #defeat #desperate #exile

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. ↗

— Ann Landers

#defeat #honor #might #much #success

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating. ↗

— Michael Landon

#dreaming #expectations #mind #one thing #self-defeating

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#capture #defeated #effort #endless #fiction

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#becomes #defeating #doing #end #in the end

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#i #like #obstacles #set #them

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#defeats #disasters #energies #even #expect