Defeat Quotes · Page 24

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

— Anonymous

We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause…

— George W. Bush

“I have been defeated, and in the defeat I have won myself. It is a pleasure to die at the hands of…

— Michael O'Brien

These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.

— Sun Tzu

It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.

— Harry Sinden

An Aquarius can be quite a sore loser inside, even if they walk away from defeat with their head held high.

— Anonymous

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

— Carl Sandburg

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to…

— Thomas Carlyle

It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take…

— Joel Osteen

I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep…

— Suzanne Collins

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival…

— Sarah Palin

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by…

— John Steinbeck

“A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice…

— Sunday Adelaja

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

— Pat Riley

I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit…

— Andre Breton

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American…

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

“With France as she is, poor and unarmed, war means defeat. Defeat means either a military dictator who will salvage what he…

— Hilary Mantel

“XXIX You have set me among those who are defeated. I know it is not for me to win, nor to leave…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It…

— Jerry Bridges

Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By…

— Wallace Stevens

In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

“You have been disappointed,you have undergone defeat during the depression, you have felt the great heart within you crushed until it bled.…

— Napolean Hill

I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any…

— Charles Bukowski

“Adam swallowed thickly. "Can you see the future?" "I see many futures." "Many?" "As many futures as there are choices." "Do I…

— Erin Kellison

“Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!”

— Napoléon Bonaparte

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.

— John Lowenstein

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

— Bruce Catton

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is a momentary.

— Anonymous

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

— John Maynard Keynes

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

On of face defeat, empower yourself with courage and determination to ensure the ensuing victory.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

— Ludwig von Mises

Falling down is not defeat . . . defeat is when your refuse to get up...

— Anonymous

Defeat is not the worst of failures.,not to have tried is the worst of failures.

— Xolani Nkambule

Greatest victory which we desire, is to defeat truth and Lo! Truth is undefeated

— Aftab Alam

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

— Sun Tzu

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

— Napoleon Hill

To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.

— Giulio Douhet

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

— Leszek Kolakowski