Defeat Quotes

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Henry Ward Beecher

To lose Is to learn.

Anonymous

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.

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.

What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.

Wendell Phillips

Who apart From ourselves can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?

Christopher Fry

They were never defeated they were only killed.

French Foreign Legion

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

Rabindranath Tagore

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.

Kimberly Derting

In life and in a boxing ring, the defeat is not declared when you fall down. It is declared only when you refuse to get up

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

Hubert Selby Jr.

You win, not by defeating others, but by performing better than before.

Vikrmn

Your defeat begins of the exact spot, which you had felt secure.

kambiz shabankareh

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

Gordon R. Dickson

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

Never speak of defeat before battle.

George R.R. Martin

Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.

Zora Neale Hurston

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

God save me from another such victory.

Lois McMaster Bujold

They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat.

Haruki Murakami

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory.

Malcolm Bradbury

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Sun Tzu

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.

Jeanette Winterson

What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.

Joseph Joubertber

Winners never suffer defeat, but rather just many setbacks on their way to victory.

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory.

Antonio Gramsci

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not.

All through the day, there are two voices that compete for your attention - the voice of faith and the voice of defeat. Tune into the voice of faith because it is the voice of victory!

Victoria Osteen

No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms 'victory' and 'defeat' to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms 'obedience' and 'disobedience.

I'm not yet defeated, just waiting for my next turn to throw the dice again.

An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

Millard Fillmore

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.

while you play bowling with one ball you will be late because untill come in that ball it's need time so you need more than one ball in order to defeat the whole army .

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

A tough life can be defeated only by the tougher person!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.

Pat Riley

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

From victory we learn little, from defeat - everything.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

Orson Scott Card

The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach.

A defeat for humanity would be the failure to recognise the rights of two people who love each other.A defeat for humanity is that people accept such hatred and discrimination into their hearts.A defeat for humanity would be the failure of the church to recognise that nobody can control who a person loves.A victory for humanity would be the dissolution of a theocratic dystopia that promotes anti-equality (aka "the Vatican") which has no place in a modern society.

Scott A. Butler

The best way to compete is to get defeat.

The color of defeat chokes her pupils, even though her nod and smile and uncomfortable sitting motion on the couch indicate that she is not finished yet. She will carry on, like all of us. Smile stubborn. Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

Takan had never truly defeated Zyid. Zyid had given his life to calm Takan's soul.

Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

William Hazlitt

The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.

Auliq-Ice

Umasi kept walking, out of sight and into the glittering night. Meahwhile, Zen lay alone, defeated on the cold ground, knowing that he had truly been left behind. Then the memories returned, and for the first time in his life, he cried.

The blame game is already a lost game, so don't attempt dressing up to play it!

Israelmore Ayivor

If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

T.S Eliot

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The only way you’re going to be defeated is if you allow your brain to shut down your body. If you stop making progress, you’re damned.

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