Personal Defeat Quotes

To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.

I am a failed visual artist.

A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization of her place in the world as a woman. Or--what is even more hopeless and pathetic--it's an admission that she has given up, that she is beaten, and refuses longer to stand up to the world.

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

The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.

My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.

My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when "Wild Wild West" opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie - to open at $52 million - and to know the movie wasn't good.