Defeat Quotes · Page 24

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Never lose faith in anyone you meet, for you may need it, when you feel defeat.

— Vikrant Parsai

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“What makes you grow is defeat, making mistakes. It is what keeps you alert. When you win you think: “Great, we’ve won.”

— Guillem Balague

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

— Murray Warmath

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

— Charles Caleb Colton

If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat tons of them.

— Jack Ma

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what…

— Ashley Montagu

The Democrats don't like the Tea Party because the Tea Party engineered their defeat. The Republicans, some members, don't like the Tea…

— Rush Limbaugh

The biggest TEMPTATION of life is to Convert dreams into reality. But the biggest defeat of life comes when We surrender our…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the…

— Tina Brown

“Death is not defeat, Tool told himself. We all die. Every one of us. Rip and Blade and Fear and all the…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few…

— Aaron Schock

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for…

— Katherine Anne Porter

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the…

— Arianna Huffington

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

— Maya Angelou

Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made,…

— Aristotle

Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“What can defeat a strong man who believes in himself and cannot be ridiculed down, talked down, or written down? Poverty cannot…

— Orison Swett Marden

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize…

— Henry Miller

Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray…

— George S. Patton

No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends,…

— Alexander Trocchi

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those…

— Douglas L. Smith

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

— Richard M. Nixon

The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept…

— Merlin Olsen

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

— Lena Headey

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

— Phil Ochs

Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

— Franco Harris

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

— Georges St-Pierre

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

— Matthew Thomas

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of…

— Ludwig von Mises

“It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.”

— Solange nicole

No matter how hard you knock me down I will get back up,i will not fall from defeat

— Autumn Heist

I think coaches should get the same amount of credit in victory that they get in defeat.

— Jeff Van Gundy

You maybe defeat is you love to much But you will live in torment if you Don't trust to much

— Laine

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

— Lolo Jones

Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

— Wendell Berry

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I shouldn't be afraid to lose, I should rather be afraid of being discouraged by it.

— Terry Mark