Famous quotes containing the word defeat:
“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.”
—Mao Zedong (18931976)
“Love your enemies. I saw this admonition now as simple, sensible advice. I knew I could face an angry, murderous mob without even the beginning of fear if I could love them. Like a flame, love consumes fear, and thus make true defeat impossible.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 2 (1962)
“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 (18961940)
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