Becoming Quote by Ashley Montagu

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has…

— Ashley Montagu

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human being is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has…

— Santanu Mishra

“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our own to…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

— Plato

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to…

— Guy Finley

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

— Bruce Lee

Whether you are able to recover from defeat says more about you than whether you are defeated in the first place.

— Melchor Lim

If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself.…

— RZA

We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you…

— Maya Angelou

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

— Anonymous

When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

— Harold Russell