He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole... →
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Bill Bradley
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
Pat Buchanan
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of... →
William F. Buckley, Jr.
I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.
George H. W. Bush
I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any... →
George McGovern
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
William McKinley
Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four... →
Michael Medved
Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.
Joyce Meyer