The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. - Ashley Montague
As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds. - Charles Rangel
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. - Stafford Cripps
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. - Steven Brust
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe. - Joe Lieberman
It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986. - Jahangir Khan
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. - Richard M. Nixon
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. - Albert Bushnell Hart