Defeat Quotes

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains, the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.

~ John A. Daly

One time, on a pleasure cruise, he saw a young couple, fiancés, sitting and looking at the water--the boy had his right arm around the girl's shoulder and held her right wrist tight and she had put her left hand on his right hand, and they sat like that, pressed close together. The little poet looked at them, it's so lovely to see a nice young couple like that. That these children are excited because they want more, that they are only getting each other worked up for what they can't do and don't dare to do, that they never know where to stop--no one ever notices that or thinks about that. It was very lovely, and maybe the truth was that they had just recently gotten engaged and were still satisfied with being madly in love with each other.

~ Nescio

Without being push to the wall, we will have remained in our comfortable zone. But this circumstance challenges us to find the courage to move on.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t allow the challenges to overpower you. Choose a positive attitude and persistent endurance over defeat.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

~ Criss Jami

Defeat none but one, yourself, for a better self than you were before.

~ Vikrmn

Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it.

~ Vikrmn

Defeat is a state of mind, no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

~ Bruce Lee

I know that you are a mere flea! I know that you need only be squashed to be done away with! I know that I have fought this same battle a thousand thousand times before...but, perhaps this time I can crush you like the insect you are!

~ Marv Wolfman

Seeking help is not defeat. It is my power.

~ Catherine Jane Fisher

The power of positive thinking begins when you refuse to accept defeat, and start preparing yourself for future possibilities. The only thing standing in the way of your breakthrough, is you!

~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

One day the world will be so badly wounded that those who try to repair it will only be called close-minded.

~ Danielle Valenilla

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

~ Bruce Lee

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

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

There is nothing that can defeat you if it does not first capture your mind.

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

Failure is not defeat. It is the start of lifelong learning adventure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How Did You Die?Did you tackle that trouble that came your wayWith a resolute heart and cheerful?Or hide your face from the light of dayWith a craven soul and fearful?Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce,Or a trouble is what you make it.And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,But only how did you take it?You are beaten to earth? Well, well what's that?Come up with a smiling face.It's nothing against you to fall down flat,But to lie there - that's disgrace.The harder you're thrown, why the higher you bounce;Be proud of your blackened eye!It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts;It's how did you fight and why?And though you be done to death, what then?If you battled the best you could;If you played your part in the world of men,Why the critic will call it good.Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,And whether he's slow or spry,It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts,But only, how did you die?

~ Edmund Vance Cooke

Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Impossibilitarians are defeated before the battle even begins. The best attitude that accommodates failure is disbelief. You can't do it because you believe you can't! You can do it because you believe you can!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Keep running; keep dreaming, keep alive the flame of hope; defeat and despair will not catch up with you

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

How a man handles himself in defeat is more important than how he handles himself in victory.

~ T.a. Uner

Joy is much sweeter for having known sorrow, and triumph for having tasted defeat.

~ Jocelyn Murray

Your self-defense becomes a self-defeat when you are doing it for selfish reasons! It's not about you and your pocket alone, let it be for the collective joy of your entire neighbourhood and beyond!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertto her next disaster.Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she becameresourceful.She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, evenwhen she claimed defeat.An inconvenient truth, yet it was right there, in her face,betraying her self-punishments and assumptions.She kept overcoming things, dammit, aggravating herself.She still felt so much joy, despite her efforts to be miserable.Her life was full of miracles and spectacles that she was afraidto rely on so she didn’t know how to enjoy, how to be thankful,without guilt.She didn’t want to win and she didn’t want to lose.Ambiguity intrigued her and she found passion in the gapsbetween hope and despair.

~ G.g. Renee Hill

It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least what it was to fail. I knew what it was to attempt something big.

~ Henry Miller

I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Satan knows, if you are against YOURSELF you will never fulfill your destiny. :(

~ Joel Osteen

Let failuers be your reason to strengthen your determination and passion to succeed.

~ Vishwas Chavan

You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting.

~ Vikrmn

You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather the pieces as they fall away. But you don’t know how to properly reattach them—a doll does not repair itself. So you hug those brittle fragments to your chest until you simply cannot hug anymore. Until you’ve had to leave so many behind that you no longer remember what it is you’re missing.

~ Darrell Drake

And with that, I’m going to crawl into bed and try to erase all that has happened today.

~ Amber Silvia

Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine.

~ Anthony Liccione

Defeated? Learn from it. Move forward. You're stronger now. Reach out for help. No shame, only learning. Seek out those you can learn from.

~ Waylon H. Lewis

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

~ Criss Jami

Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.

~ Caius Sempronius Gracchus

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

~ Ann Brashares