Defeated Quote by Richard Wright

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

“He couldn't have what he'd once had; he'd already destroyed it.”

— Brenda Novak

“Don’t be defeated by one defeat.”

— Tim LaHaye

“(He) may have won a battle, but he was about to lose the war.”

— Linda Rodríguez McRobbie

“Defeat is a momentary thing. A defeat doesn't last. We were defeated and now we attack. Defeat means nothing. Can't you understand that? Do…

— John Steinbeck

“He who would so win it destroys it; he who would hold it in his grasp loses it.”

— Lao Tzu

“and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

“The object of battle was the destruction of the enemy’s capacity to resist.”

— Louis L'Amour

“Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat...”

— Andrew Davidson

“I have destroyed him with the weapons I abhorred, and they are his. We have crossed each other's frotiers, we are the no-men of…

— John le Carré