593 Quotes About Defeat

A setback is never a defeat. God is our defender, we are overcomers.

Do not give in to defeat, try again.

The only place that a defeat becomes a defeat is when I make it so in my mind.

Take care of your soul; it will never lose its tournament if Jesus is the coach of your life. He will substitute your sins for righteousness and you will not be tempted to suffer a penalty for defeat! You are a winner, not a loser!

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

Do not fear defeat nor death.

You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather the pieces as they fall away. But you don’t know how to properly reattach them—a doll does not repair itself. So you hug those brittle fragments to your chest until you simply cannot hug anymore. Until you’ve had to leave so many behind that you no longer remember what it is you’re missing.

Expecting defeat more than halves the potency of our effort, and more than quadruples that of our opponent’s effort.

Impossibilitarians are defeated before the battle even begins. The best attitude that accommodates failure is disbelief. You can't do it because you believe you can't! You can do it because you believe you can!