Defeat Quotes

If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat. (Simone de Beauvoir)
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind. View quote
Bruce Lee
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. View quote
Horatio Nelson
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. View quote
George Soros
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. View quote
George Carlin
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. (Henry Ward Beecher)
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. View quote
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. View quote
William Morris
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. View quote
Mary Renault
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. View quote
Napoleon Hill
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. View quote
Huey P. Newton
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. View quote
Wendell Phillips
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. View quote
Winston Churchill
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. View quote
Winston Churchill
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book. View quote
Saul Bellow