Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one’s own successors is as important as what one does for victory.

We haven’t had a defeat like that since my first year here. [Canfield’s] defense is the best I’ve seen here.

You can’t allow the false ideas of defeat to discourage you. Every day you should feel encouraged to do your best, encouraged to be your best, and encouraged to work towards your best.

There are feet that are swift to mete out defeat to anything different, but in doing so the assailant is already defeated. I say to them that the lack of awareness concerning their premature end...

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.[News conference, April 21 1961]

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than...

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their...

Take care of your soul; it will never lose its tournament if Jesus is the coach of your life. He will substitute your sins for righteousness and you will not be tempted to suffer a...

Yeah, your highness. I know what loss is. I’ve loved thatgirl since before she knew me. But I waited. I waited because I didn’t want to lie about who I was. I wanted her to...

If we keep our heads down, either out of defeat or loss or shame or tiredness… whatever the reason, we are going to miss the beautiful sun (and Son) that is right there in front...

The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.

You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you’d recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

How Did You Die?Did you tackle that trouble that came your wayWith a resolute heart and cheerful?Or hide your face from the light of dayWith a craven soul and fearful?Oh, a trouble’s a ton, or...

Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, a kiss too longAnd there follows a mist and a weeping rainAnd life is never the same again

Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that...

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos...

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Some defeats are more satisfying than victories.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertto her next disaster.Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she becameresourceful.She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, evenwhen she claimed defeat.An...

I know that you are a mere flea! I know that you need only be squashed to be done away with! I know that I have fought this same battle a thousand thousand times before…but,...

We recognize that Palestinians need help in consolidating security forces and training security forces that would defeat the terrorists that would like to stop the march of freedom.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a...

The government and the BOJ will work as one to defeat deflation, and we hope the BOJ will keep taking effective monetary policy and earn the markets’ trust.

Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.

A timetable will help the terrorists, will encourage them that they could defeat a superpower of the world and Iraqi people, … We don’t want to do anything without the agreement with the Americans because...

They dig holes from time to time,’ the Colonel explains. ‘It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at...

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.

Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it’s letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Dar de asemenea la acea ora de indoiala am jurat in adancul sufletului meu ca voi lupta, aducandu-mi partea mea (poate partea leului) cu toata rabdarea posibila, ignorand toate dezamagirile si descurajarile, chiar daca eram...

It was clear to me that it wouldn’t matter what I did – they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle – they were insensible,...

Maybe this defeat will make us aggressive and lead us to such a reaction that we can produce a great game in Milan.

My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.

defeat the enemies strategy

The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the projects that stretched for blocks along the drive. Something inside her sank at...

Umasi kept walking, out of sight and into the glittering night. Meahwhile, Zen lay alone, defeated on the cold ground, knowing that he had truly been left behind. Then the memories returned, and for the...

In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will...

We’ve got to put the defeat behind us now and look forward to playing Fulham.

God save me from another such victory.

We may run into many downfalls in life, but with a mighty God on our side those downfalls have already been defeated.

The best way to compete is to get defeat.