Defeat Quotes

Every defeat hurts.

— Trent Alexander-Arnold

It is defeat which educates us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When we pray we admit defeat.”

— Anthony Burgess

Defeat held no honor.

— Johanna Lindsey

War is a defeat for humanity.

— Pope John Paul II

“Only fear can defeat life.”

— Yann Martel

A wrong motive involves defeat.

— Mary Baker Eddy

Will power defeats all powers

— Aftab Alam

The occasional defeat dosn't mean you are loosing the war.

— Uknown

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

— Steve Inskeep

I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats.

— Elana Meyers

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.

— Anonymous

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

— Walter F. Mondale

“Seeking help is not defeat. It is my power.”

— Catherine Jane Fisher

“To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.”

— Preston Morgan

“Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.”

— Gordon R. Dickson

And those opposing me, have no souls indeed, I'm like a parapalege, I dont know defeat (the feet).

— Wale

I just could't accept defeat. he Lord had to knock me down and stand on my chest to show me the error…

— John DeLorean

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." ( Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13 , 3 May 1919)”

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

— Rick Yancey

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

— Ralph Ellison

Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith

I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.

— John McCain

To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.

— Michael Ignatieff

Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as…

— Tom Robbins

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and…

— George William Russell

I would rank George Washington as America's greatest president, but he only had to defeat what was then the world's greatest military…

— Ann Coulter

When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years…

— Charles Colson

We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS…We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds.…

— Ted Cruz

But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown spells victory or defeat. ... Some people call…

— George S. Patton

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned…

— William Wordsworth

Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on…

— Winston S. Churchill

We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And…

— Hillary Clinton

Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he…

— Howard Zinn

Everything on this earth can be made into something better. Every defeat may be made the foundation of a future victory. Every…

— Adolf Hitler

I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole…

— Phil Jackson

The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After…

— Mao Zedong

Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva