Defeat Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

— Bruce Jackson

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

— Max Lerner

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away…

— George MacDonald

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to…

— Susan Glaspell

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or…

— Bruce Lee

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet…

— Og Mandino

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

— Rick Perlstein

“There’s a victory that looks like defeat.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

— Gichin Funakoshi