#defeat

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. ↗

— Sam Snead

#back #champions #come #defeat #great

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. ↗

— George Soros

#defeat #earth #external #getting #most

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#destroyed #man

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#did #got #i #never #question

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry. ↗

— John Byrne

#defeats #go #i #interest #length

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#defeated #fails #like #nothing #success

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#anger #aspiration #control #forgiveness #grow

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated. ↗

— Albert Meltzer

#hope #inevitably #last #optimism

The color of defeat chokes her pupils, even though her nod and smile and uncomfortable sitting motion on the couch indicate that she is not finished yet. She will carry on, like all of us. Smile stubborn. Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#defeat #fight #courage

People see defeat on trials I have lost, all I see is the steps that have brought me to a higher place. ↗

— Martin Suarez

#defeat #higher-self #victories #courage