quotations about defeat
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
BRUCE LEE
Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
Every defeat is a feather in your cap.
THE VANDALS
"Failure Is the Best Revenge"
And the bittersweet of every new defeat
Is I'm stronger than before
Baby, on my knees, but I still believe
These broken wings will soar
BIRDY
"Silhouette", Beautiful Lies
Defeat is a one-time occurrence. There is no direct relation between this one-time fact of defeat, resulting in a secondary defeat at the hands of the self -- a defeat which is therefore all the more decisive.
YOSHIMI TAKEUCHI
What Is Modernity?
Defeat is a glimpse into mortality. It's seeing death through a looking glass.
MATTHEW JOHNSON
"On Noble Defeat", The Good Men Project, March 11, 2019
When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.
NAPOLEON HILL
Think and Grow Rich
To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.
NEAL ASCHERSON
Wojtek the Bear
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Defeat teachus us life's most valuable lessons.
CHINESE PROVERB
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
John F. Kennedy on Leadership (Barnes)
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
MUHAMMAD ALI
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.
GRENVILLE KLEISER
Dictionary of Proverbs
It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
BEN ROBERTSON
Red Hills and Cotton
The taste of defeat is like cold iron in my mouth, like the bit for an unbroken filly.
PHILIPPA GREGORY
The Other Queen
In the morning I brush my teeth with hope, and at night before bed I brush them with defeat. Both are mint flavored, so I try not to get them mixed up.
JAROD KINTZ
At Even One Penny
Defeat is three-legged.
SINHALESE PROVERB
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first to something better.
W. PHILLIPS
attributed, Day's Collacon
A young man is not fitted for life's battle until he has met and survived defeat.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
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
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Defeat is like shortbread: it rarely stops with one.
STEPHEN BUSH
"What Happened in the 1974 election?", New Statesman, April 20, 2015