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.

In formal logic a contradiction is the signal of defeat but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

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.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history and Europe has helped write ours.

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.