593 Quotes About Defeat

Disappointment is never a defeat.

Sometimes the universe uses ridicule as a tool to turn you into a titan and tighten up all your loose screws.

Create new avenues in your life by removing toxic people who defeat your purpose.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

It is what it is because you let it be so.

The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.[News conference, April 21 1961]

Victory is not based on the nature of any outcome, but on the fact that one stood by their values even in the face of the most devastating outcomes.

A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction