Defeat Quotes - Page 15

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

ISIS have to be defeated. They have to be defeated militarily. How are we going to do that if we continue to weaken our military?

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

Victory lies in not getting defeated.

There's music in everything, even defeat

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Venison and venery defeated me.

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.

I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

If you're successful, don't crow. If you're defeated, don't croak.

I'm going to retire undefeated. I'll take everybody out one-by-one then go on my merry way