Defeat quotes

Defeat: Inspiring quotes to turn setbacks into motivation, conquer challenges, and emerge stronger than ever. Find encouragement in the face of defeat!

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

- Robert Collier

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

- Pat Buchanan

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

- Denis Waitley

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

- Tony Blair

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

- Kelly Miller

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

- David Axelrod

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

- Queen Victoria

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

- Simone de Beauvoir

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

- Winston Churchill

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

- Russell Baker

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

- Nick Clooney

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

- Ann Landers

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

- Zebulon Pike

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

- Ludwig von Mises

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

- Henry Miller

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

- Edward Teller

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

- Jonathan Carroll

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

- William McKinley

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

- Galeazzo Ciano

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

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

- Pat Riley

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

The deepest human 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 Montagu

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

- Henry Waxman

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

- Joseph Epstein

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

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

- John T. Flynn

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.

- Stafford Cripps