Defeat Quotes
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. (Quote by - Edwin Markham)
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. (Quote by - Sun-tzu)
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? (Quote by - Vergil)
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. (Quote by - Paul Brown)
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves. (Quote by - Roy Cohn)
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. (Quote by - Josephus Daniels)
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. (Quote by - George E. Woodberry)
Many a good man I have seen go under. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. (Quote by - Tom Landry)
There is no defeat except for those who give up. (Quote by - Joseph B. Wirthlin)
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. (Quote by - Ralph W Sockman)
Who, apart From ourselves, can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats? (Quote by - Christopher Fry)
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time. (Quote by - Richard Nixon)
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
They were never defeated, they were only killed. (Quote by - French Foreign Legion)
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail. (Quote by - Wendell L. Willkie)
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. (Quote by - Queen Victoria)
Victory and defeat are each of the same price. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
If you can accept losing, you can't win. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. (Quote by - Russell Baker)
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
There could be no honor in sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. (Quote by - T. E. Lawrence)
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything. (Quote by - George Lois)
We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us, as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation. (Quote by - Robert E. Lee)
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. (Quote by - Malcolm S. Forbes)
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat? (Quote by - Rosa Parks)
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. (Quote by - Lou Holtz)
A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself. (Quote by - Jan Christian Smuts)
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. (Quote by - Michael de Montaigne)
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. (Quote by - Sallust)
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. (Quote by - Arthur Calwell)
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. (Quote by - Marcus Garvey)
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. (Quote by - F Scott Fitzgerald)
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. (Quote by - Lydia M. Child)
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. (Quote by - Galeazzo Ciano)
Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. (Quote by - Robert South)
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. (Quote by - William McKinley)
Our defeat at the hands of England could turn out to be a major positive. (Quote by - Justin Langer)
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. (Quote by - Gandhi)
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. (Quote by - Marcus Fabuis Quintilianus)
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
