593 Quotes About Defeat

Adaptability and innovation are the root of victory. Chaos and fear are the birth of defeat.

And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs.

No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms 'victory' and 'defeat' to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms 'obedience' and 'disobedience.

What’s really amazing is when we are at our lowest points, feeling defeated or broken, we are able to mend and feel whole again.

Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child’s.

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

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.

In the fight for freedom there is no defeat, you either achieve it or you die trying. In both cases you're as free as one can be.

A giver will never suffer a defeat.