Defeat Quotes

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

~ Gordon R. Dickson

Your defeat begins of the exact spot, which you had felt secure.

~ Kambiz Shabankareh

You win, not by defeating others, but by performing better than before.

~ Vikrmn

When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference

~ Ian Fleming

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

In life and in a boxing ring, the defeat is not declared when you fall down. It is declared only when you refuse to get up

~ Manoj Arora

The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.

~ Kimberly Derting

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

~ Wallis Simpson

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

~ James A. Michener

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

~ Kim Il-Sung

War is a defeat for humanity.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

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.

~ Ernest Hemingway

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

~ Jeffrey Sachs

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

~ Ernest Hemingway

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

~ Zig Ziglar

Man is not made for defeat.

~ Ernest Hemingway

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

~ Ann Landers

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

~ Edwin Markham

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

~ Kin Hubbard

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

~ George Eliot

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

~ Anaïs Nin

Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body to fight back at full strength, and that might be too late. When you're pre-immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific foes. So that's really how vaccines work.

~ Seth Berkley

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

~ Stephen Lewis

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

~ Rose Kennedy

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

The way to defeat international terrorism is through international cooperation based on international law, clear intelligence, and a measured and appropriate military response.

~ Charles Kennedy

Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

~ Shaukat Aziz

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

~ Abdelaziz Bouteflika

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

~ Oskar Schindler

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

~ John Boyd Orr

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

~ Bill Bradley

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

~ Rufus Wainwright

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

~ Napoleon Hill

I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.

~ Jack Keane

The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

~ Rand Paul

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

~ Martha Gellhorn

I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser.

~ John Mcenroe

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

~ Wendell Phillips