#defeat

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

#defeat #death

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#because #canada #confederation #culture #decades

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#both #both sides #defeat #followed #military

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#become #both #choice #defeat #feminism

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dark #defeat #depression #giving #had

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#denied #existence #forms #self-defeating #their

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#arnold schwarzenegger #because #concentrate #defeat #energy

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#come #defeated #down #even #extra

The beauty of defeat is that when you fall, you fly. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#live-in-the-moment #triumph #beauty