Defeat Quotes

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

It is defeat which educates us.

When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging.

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

I will go down with my colours flying.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

Now the time is come,That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,And let her head fall into England's lap.

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.

I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.

Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.

I see for Nature no defeatIn one tree's overthrowOr for myself in my retreatFor yet another blow.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.