Defeat Quotes

If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

~ T.s. Eliot

The blame game is already a lost game, so don't attempt dressing up to play it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Umasi kept walking, out of sight and into the glittering night. Meahwhile, Zen lay alone, defeated on the cold ground, knowing that he had truly been left behind. Then the memories returned, and for the first time in his life, he cried.

~ Isamu Fukui

The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.

~ Auliq Ice

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

~ William Hazlitt

Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.

~ Chris Bradford

Takan had never truly defeated Zyid. Zyid had given his life to calm Takan's soul.

~ Isamu Fukui

The color of defeat chokes her pupils, even though her nod and smile and uncomfortable sitting motion on the couch indicate that she is not finished yet. She will carry on, like all of us. Smile stubborn. Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

~ Markus Zusak

The best way to compete is to get defeat.

~ Santosh Kalwar

A defeat for humanity would be the failure to recognise the rights of two people who love each other.A defeat for humanity is that people accept such hatred and discrimination into their hearts.A defeat for humanity would be the failure of the church to recognise that nobody can control who a person loves.A victory for humanity would be the dissolution of a theocratic dystopia that promotes anti-equality (aka the Vatican) which has no place in a modern society.

~ Scott A. Butler

The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach.

~ Pawan Mishra

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

~ Orson Scott Card

From victory we learn little, from defeat - everything.

~ Jeffrey Fry

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.

~ Pat Riley

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

~ John Steinbeck

while you play bowling with one ball you will be late because untill come in that ball it's need time so you need more than one ball in order to defeat the whole army .

~ Ragir Saeed

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

~ Adolf Hitler

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

~ John Steinbeck

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

~ Millard Fillmore

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

~ Roger Kahn

One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.

~ Markus Zusak

An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.

~ Mike Klepper

All through the day, there are two voices that compete for your attention - the voice of faith and the voice of defeat. Tune into the voice of faith because it is the voice of victory!

~ Victoria Osteen

No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms 'victory' and 'defeat' to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms 'obedience' and 'disobedience.

~ Jerry Bridges

I'm not yet defeated, just waiting for my next turn to throw the dice again.

~ Neetesh Dixit

What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.

~ Joseph Joubertber

Winners never suffer defeat, but rather just many setbacks on their way to victory.

~ Orrin Woodward

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory.

~ Antonio Gramsci

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not.

~ Matthew Thomas

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory.

~ Malcolm Bradbury

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

~ Sun Tzu

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.

~ Jeanette Winterson

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

~ Mark Lawrence

God save me from another such victory.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat.

~ Haruki Murakami

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.

~ Nick Hornby

Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Never speak of defeat before battle.

~ George R.r. Martin

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

~ Denis Markell