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The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
Ernest Hemingway
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
Steve Maraboli
A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.
Leo Tolstoy
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
Orson Scott Card
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
Robert Browning
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Tom Landry
The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn't hear the referee.
H. E. Jansen
There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory.
A. H. K. Boyd
A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.
Jan Christian Smuts
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Sam Snead
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel de Montaigne
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
Thomas Jefferson
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
Norman Vincent Peale
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
General Douglas MacArthur
