“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
All Will be Well (2004)
“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Assistance
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
Context: Look to the Great Eternal Cause
And not to any man, for light.
Look in; and learn the wrong, and right,
From your own soul's unwritten laws.
And when you question, or demur,
Let Love be your Interpreter.
Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor
Source: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
“[A] wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 62
“People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.”
Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader
On the root of sin - "TB Joshua Defends Oyakhilome" http://www.herald.ng/tb-joshua-defends-oyakhilome-dont-disagree-peoples-understanding-differs/#rGUiGU1sJDEPXQC4.99 The Herald, Nigeria (March 23 2014)
MC Daleste (1992–2013) Brazilian funk and rap musician
In the song Lagrimas de Sofrimento http://www.vagalume.com.br/mc-daleste/lagrima-de-sofrimento.html
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Context: Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must not do it.