Defeat Quotes · Page 6

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

— B. C. Forbes

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

— Guy Finley

“Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat...”

— Andrew Davidson

“You are always one decision away from victory or defeat.”

— Erol Ozan

“How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken”

— Beverley Cross

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

— Woodrow Wilson

“there’s music in everything, even defeat—but”

— Charles Bukowski

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

— Nick Stone

“It was defeat, but defeat is less unwelcome when you are tired.”

— Penelope Fitzgerald

Any team can fall down but it's about how they react to defeat that matters.

— Kolo Toure

Every hour lost hastens Gondor's defeat. We have 'til dawn, then we must ride.

— Aragorn

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

— Amin Maalouf

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

— Napoleon Hill

“And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs.”

— C.N. Faust

Defeat is a state of mind, no one will be defeated unless the loss is accepted as a reality .

— Anonymous

“If you have faith in yourself you will never lick the dust of defeat in any ground”

— Saad Khan

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be…

— Sonya Hartnett

“...[Mystery] delivered one of the many great aphorisms that that he used to turn defeat into triumph. "Where there's a problem, there's…

— Neil Strauss

I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.

— Walter Russell

“A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our…

— Leo Tolstoy

From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy…

— Sun Tzu

You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however,…

— Daisaku Ikeda

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, DC, I did everything I could to defeat cap…

— Michele Bachmann

You can see that there is scarcely an observable fact unworthy of mention in your notes, and yet you could easily spend…

— Robert Pyle

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if…

— Tom Robbins

I will tell you that Hillary [Clinton] will tell you to go to her website and read all about how to defeat…

— Donald Trump

Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against…

— Pablo Neruda

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention…

— Dalai Lama

The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years…

— Anonymous

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the…

— Jonathan Sacks

No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

— Joel Osteen

Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

— Tony Robbins

“The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

— Simon Bolivar

Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

— Galeazzo Ciano

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

— Josephus Daniels