Defeat Quotes

DEFEAT QUOTES

quotations about defeat

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

There's an empty room, there's a blank page
There's a picture left incomplete
Something is lost, something remains
A monument to defeat

FATES WARNING

"Monument", Chasing Time

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Blithely to anticipate victory in defeat is like taking a cut flower, sticking it in the ground and expecting it to grow.

HUGH BUCKINGHAM

How to Be a Christian in Trying Circumstances

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wringing one last spectacular defeat from the jaws of victory

CHARLES FAIR

From the Jaws of Victory

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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The Old Man and The Sea

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There's only one thing you've learned in defeat,
Losing is bitter and victory is sweet

DAVID CROSBY

"Old Soldier"

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Where defeat is inevitable, it is expedient to yield.

ROMAN PROVERB

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Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does.

RICHARD NIXON

note written July 1969

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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

ARTHUR ASHE

Arthur Ashe on Tennis

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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

The Boys of Summer

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Defeat is a school in which Truth always grows strong.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

NEAL ASCHERSON

Wojtek the Bear

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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.