The Defeat Quotes
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As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
A true leader is one who accepts defeat in the same way he accepts winning.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
— Harold S. Kushner
My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.
— Dhirubhai Ambani
It takes pride and a tiger's drive to build up the confidence, the ego, the power to defeat an opponent in the ring. It
— Muhammad Ali
May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you.
— Paulo Coelho
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
— Morris Gleitzman
If you keep avoiding the forces that can defeat you, you may never learn your true power!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.
— Kevin McCarthy
Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.
— Rick Riordan
All you have to do is try. And to me, the worst kind of defeat is not failure per se. It's the decision not to try.
— Novak Djokovic
If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
For the first time in my life I was admitting defeat.
— Christina Lauren
To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.
— Haki R. Madhubuti
Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
— G. Gordon Liddy
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
— Stevie Wonder
Discouragement is the cancer of great things.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.
— Thomas Merton
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
— Fernando Pessoa
Only the vanquished remember history.
— Marshall McLuhan
That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man
— Joe Calzaghe
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
— Phil Ochs
A warrior becomes experienced by being defeated; a scholar by making mistakes. Defeat and mistakes we have left in the past, he said.
— Elaine Marolakos Edelson
A true champion is one that accepts defeat the same manner he accepts winning".
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
— Ben Robertson
The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams.-From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin — Robert Jordan
To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.
— H.L. Mencken
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
— William McKinley
The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.
— Pope Francis
I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.
— Newt Gingrich
To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war,
— Benjamin Netanyahu
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
— Winston Churchill
The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength.
— Kyuzo Mifune
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
— A.J. Cronin
100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.
— Patience Jonathan
The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.
— Kimberly Derting
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
— Arthur Ashe
I'd rather donate 10% of my earnings to homeless people on the street than to an organization that sells negativity that I'll never defeat.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
— Martin Seligman
I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.
— Arnold Palmer
The ultimate fighter does not rely on his hands or feet to defeat his opponent, but rather his mind.
— M.J. Stoddard
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
— Criss Jami
There are many paths to victory; choose the shortest one! There are many paths to defeat; choose the longest one!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit
— Napoleon Hill
Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.
— Garry Kasparov
If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.
— Tsunetomo Yamamoto
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For him, the game is not to defeat the opponent, but to challenge his own abilities.
— Haruki Murakami
You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.
— Alan Keyes
You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
— Karl Liebknecht
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
— Herbert Marcuse
With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
— Kelly Miller
Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn't defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later.
— Gena Showalter
How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken
— Beverley Cross
The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.
— Dale Carnegie
The beauty of defeat is that when you fall, you fly.
— Lionel Suggs
Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.
— Bill Maher
Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
— William Hartston
Establishing the Word of God defeats our spiritual enemies and protects our prosperity.
— Sunday Adelaja
The art of victory is learned in defeat.
— Simon Bolivar
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.
— Emile De Girardin
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
— James A. Michener
Victory and defeat are found in the same entity
— Thabiso Monkoe
On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self.
— Akira Toriyama
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
— Dennis Miller
