If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.
Paul Williams

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

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.
Caryl Chessman

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby

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

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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
Margaret Halsey

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Arthur Calwell

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
Grover Cleveland

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
C. L. R. James

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
Pope John Paul II

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

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.
Michael Scheuer

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

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.
Albert Meltzer

Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.
Timothy Murphy

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
Brad Henry

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
Abu Bakar Bashir