593 Quotes About Defeat

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski

Umasi kept walking, out of sight and into the glittering night. Meahwhile, Zen lay alone, defeated on the cold ground, knowing that he had truly been left behind. Then the memories returned, and for the first time in his life, he cried.

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.

The joy of victory is when people are waiting to defeat you.

We would be wise not to play the victim, for that would be to miss the fact that defeat holds the raw ingredients from which the greatest victories are crafted.

One day they won. The next day they lost.