If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer lose endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life.

I never thought of losing but now that it' s happened the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me a big part of it is information knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community and especially the counterterrorism community is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way not to evade destiny as the ordinary people try to do but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

Love is never defeated and I could add the history of Ireland proves it.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

They were afraid never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

But you say does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health like there's no hope and you still make the choice to fight for it to make the change happen no matter what people say or think that's inspiring to me.

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.

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

When a great team loses through complacency it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.