Defeat Quotes · Page 27

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a…

— Charles Stanley

To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.

— Jozef Pilsudski

You cannot talk defeat and expect to have victory. Send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

— Anonymous

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Aragorn

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

— Kolo Toure

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

— Penelope Fitzgerald

Always remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again.

— Dan Gable

Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security…

— Russ Feingold

I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said,…

— Brian Kiley

“I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This…

— John-Talmage Mathis

I've always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can't really stay…

— Derek Luke

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are…

— Michel Faber

The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion,…

— Paul David Tripp

Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept…

— Bruce Lee

In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may…

— Kano Jigoro

If you found really hard to win over your enemy even after several of tries, bow to him, accept your defeat by…

— Lucky Arora

Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents;…

— Franz Stampfl

“You think I don’t know pain?” Puck shook his head at me. “Or loss? I’ve been around a lot longer than you,…

— Julie Kagawa

In life, friendships change, divorces happen, people move on, others die. Money and jobs will come and go. Live long enough and…

— Les Brown

When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding…

— Rick Perlstein

All of the external circumstances and the rude and difficult people we meet, instead of getting angry, upset, or frustrated, we see…

— Tenzin Palmo

Jesus on the cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it; he…

— Pope Francis

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

— Sam Snead

“You’re the enemy. You’re the one who’s going to defeat yourself.”

— Paul Russell

Being able to accept defeat is the true measure of being a strong person.

— Anonymous

If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well,

— Joyce Meyer

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

— Robert Henri

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Be invincible - not to weakness, but to defeat. You are defeated only when you think you are defeated.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.

— Mark Hart

Depression is a serious thing and, after my defeat to Pacquiao, I was facing retirement and didn't cope with it very well.

— Ricky Hatton

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

— Pope Francis

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

— Kelly Miller

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

— Joel Osteen

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

— Mason Cooley

I’m cocky in prediction, I’m confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

— Conor McGregor

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

— Napoleon Hill