43 Defeat Quotes

1. "Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
   Josephus Daniels
   Best Attitude Quotes




2. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory."
   Franco Harris
   Positive Quotes About Change




3. "Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
   George Lois
   Creativity





4. "There is no defeat except for those who give up."
   Joseph B. Wirthlin
   Don't Quit Poem




5. "I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail."
   Wendell L. Willkie
   Thoughtful




6. "Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats."
   Ralph W. Sockman
   Positive Thoughts




7. "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
   Marcus Garvey
   Optimistic





8. "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
   F Scott Fitzgerald
   Solutions




9. "But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for."
   Paulo Coelho
   Dream




10. "Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
    Robert South
    Discouragement Quotes





Feeling Defeated Quotes



11. "Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact."
    Norman Vincent Peale
    Believe




12. "Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
    Marilyn vos Savant
    Poems About Life




13. "What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better."
    Wendell Phillips
    Inspirational Poems




14. "It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated. . . it is finished when it surrenders."
    Ben Stein
    Life




15. "Do not let defeat be a failure, let defeat be a means of moving on to better things with new knowledge - if you take that type of attitude you will find success even in defeat!"
    Catherine Pulsifer
    Knowledge





16. "Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory."
    Norman Vincent Peale
    Hope




17. "When confronted by failure, disappointment, or rejection, it may be far easier simply to give up. But this attitude can spell the difference between long-term success and a series of defeat."
    Amy E. Dean, Peace of Mind
    Success




18. "You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another."
    Oprah Winfrey
    Overwhelmed




19. "Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future."
    Ray Comfort
    Quotes To Live By




20. "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
    Wilma Rudolph
    Challenges





Short Inspiring Defeat Quotes



21. "You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat."
    Paul Brown
    Learning




22. Life has meaning only in the struggles... So let us celebrate the struggles.
    Swahili Warrior Song
    Inspirational Quotes About Life and Struggles




23. "You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character."
    Richard M. Nixon
    Poems of Encouragement




24. Stress is an admission of weakness, a cry of defeat to the world.
    Carrie Latet
    Stress Quotes




25. "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
    Michael de Montaigne
    Thought Provoking




26. "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
    George E. Woodberry
    Failure





27. No matter who does you wrong, you don't have to stay defeated.
    Joel Osteen
    Short Quotes




28. "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up."
    Vince Lombardi
    Sports




29. "It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."
    Arthur Calwell
    Truth




30. "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
    Robert G. Ingersoll
    Courage




31. "In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."
    Robert Collier
    Graduation Quotes





Famous Quotes About Defeat


32. "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    Father




33. "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Never Give Up Quotes




34. How can you develop this nonquitting, undefeatable attitude? Well, for one thing, never talk defeat, for if you do you can actually talk yourself into acceptance of defeat.
    Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, You Can If You Think You Can
    Positive Messages





35. A lot of people try once or twice, and if they meet with defeat, they use those experience as an excuse to give up.
    Les Brown
    Experience




36. "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Trouble




37. "I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it."
    Lou Holtz
    Work Quotes




38. "Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
    Anais Nin
    Adversity




39. "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
    Maya Angelou
    Inspirational





40. "Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong."
    Henry Ward Beecher
    Motivational Quotes




41. "It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible."
    Henry Ward Beecher
    Motivational Poems




42. "No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory."
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Positive Quotes




43. "Man is not made for defeat."
    Heraclitus
    Poetry