Defeat Quotes

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

He who cannot overcome his own demons could never defeat another

A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

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.

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

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

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.

Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.

Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat.

The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.

Defeat is always momentary.

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well.

‎For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

Determination is frequently found in failure, but it is never found in defeat.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.