Defeat Quote by George Eliot

Don't waste your time, It will never work, Don't try and fight, It only makes it worse, And I will never be The one…

— Falling In Reverse

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

— Charles Bukowski

“The greatest victories are born from the lessons of defeat.”

— Marion Bekoe

“You are right, Frodo,’ said Gandalf: ‘to go back is to admit defeat, and face worse defeat to come.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands…

— Plato

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some victories come when some people decide to abandon you. While it may seem like rejection, it is a victory making its way to…

— Gift Gugu Mona

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

— King Hussein I

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

— Paulo Coelho

“Short wins does not guarantee long victories.”

— Krishna Sagar

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

— Michel de Montaigne