Defeat Quotes

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

Rose Kennedy

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

The best way to compete is to get defeat.

Santosh Kalwar

their heart grew coldthey let their wings down

Sappho

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Paul Brown

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

Criss Jami

When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

Charles Caleb Colton

My lowest days as a Christian and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Charles Caleb Colton

You defeated me But you won't defeat me again Because you have grown all you can grow.... but I am still growing (about Mount Everest).

Edmund Hillary

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

Antoine De SaintExupery

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Maya Angelou

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Sir Winston Churchill

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

James Garfield

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

William Wordsworth

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?

Virgil

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Lou Holtz

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Paulo Coelho

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

Greg Lake