Quotes

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-George E. Woodberry

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
-Richard M. Nixon

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

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he uits.
-Richard M. Nixon

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
-Ernest Hemingway

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
-Abdul Kalam

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
-Thomas Jefferson

Domestic policy can only defeat us, foreign policy can kill us.
-John F. Kennedy

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.
-Russell Crowe

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
-Simone de Beauvoir

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
-Russell Baker

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
-Winston Churchill

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
-Carl Sandburg

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
-Mao Zedong

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
-Marilyn vos Savant

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-Robert Green Ingersoll

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.
-Anonymous Author

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
-G. Gordon Liddy

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
-Wallis Simpson

In defeat, unbeatable, in victory, unbearable.
-Edward Marsh

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.
-Anonymous Author

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
-Malcolm S. Forbes

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
-Alfred Adler

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
-Edwin Markham

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
-Bill Bradley

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.
-Ninon de L'Enclos

The first goal of man should be to defeat himself.
-Anonymous Author

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
-Oskar Schindler

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
-Tom Landry

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
-Zig Ziglar

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-Galeazzo Ciano

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
-Lydia M. Child

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
-Sallust

If you can accept losing, you can't win.
-Vince Lombardi

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
-Queen Victoria

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
-Cesar Chavez

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
-John Boyd Orr

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
-Bertolt Brecht

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.
-Roy M. Cohn

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
-William McKinley

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald