Defeat Quotes

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.

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. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

You're never beaten until you admit it

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

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.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.