Defeat Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less…

— Walker Percy

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount…

— Napoleon Hill

We don't have to shrink ourselves down in order to make the men around us feel capable. We can be fully in our power…

— Simone Missick

“Men do not become what by nature they are meant to be, but what society makes them... generous feelings... are, as it were, shrunk…

— Elbridge Colby

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

— Thomas Paine

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him…

— Eric Taylor

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages…

— Mark Twain

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and…

— Francis of Assisi