Defeat Quotes · Page 32

Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

— John Kessel

“The defeat that had frightened her in the faces of black men was the defeat of black forever defined by white.”

— Alice Walker

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

— Adrienne Rich

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and…

— Curtis Jackson

It is always easier to accept defeat when you were the weaker team.

— Mats Hummels

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

— Christy Mathewson

The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

— Jubal Early

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So…

— Alan Alda

I do take defeats well. However, I don't just leave them at that. I take time to analyze why I was defeated…

— Rain

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal…

— Allen Klein

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of…

— Norm MacDonald

“Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an…

— Katherine McIntyre

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me…

— Anonymous

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very…

— Michael Ignatieff

We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats…

— Sidney Poitier

American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less…

— Noam Chomsky

There’s no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are…

— Derek Landy

Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an…

— Victorio

I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a…

— Patrick Cleburne

“Colonel Aubertin and his two colleagues sat on a park bench in the private garden of Dorset Square. Rougemont sat between his…

— Mark Ellis

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the…

— Sun Tzu

A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only…

— Primo Levi

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.…

— Wilma Rudolph

I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.

— Jose Mourinho

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

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

— Dan Gable

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

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

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for…

— Bill Ayers