DEFEAT QUOTES II

quotations about defeat

Overmatched, outwitted
Defeat is my only name

PROJECT 86

"When Darkness Reigns"


Each of my defeats is your victory
And I walk barefoot on a field of swords
You have mastered

KERLI

"Savages"


He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


Defeat is like a whirlpool. There is no potential to move forward while in its midst.

MATTHEW JOHNSON

"On Noble Defeat", The Good Men Project, March 11, 2019


Humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

RALPH ELLISON

Invisible Man


There is no defeat except from within.

AMERICAN PROVERB


One test of strength is the ability to take defeat graciously.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

BILL BRADLEY

attributed, The Greatest Quotations of All Time


A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

JAMES ELLIS

attributed, Treasury of Religious Thought


Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

JOSEPHUS DANIELS

The Life of Woodrow Wilson


A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

LOUIS L'AMOUR

The Walking Drum


Defeat is a one-time occurrence. There is no direct relation between this one-time fact of defeat, resulting in a secondary defeat at the hands of the self -- a defeat which is therefore all the more decisive.

YOSHIMI TAKEUCHI

What Is Modernity?


Defeat is no hero's tale.

THINKMAN

"Never a Tear", Life Is Full Time Occupation


Defeat is a tonic to a brave man.

AMERICAN PROVERB


To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts


A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings.... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

The Optimistic Life


What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

BRUCE LEE

Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way


It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.

BEN ROBERTSON

Red Hills and Cotton


Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

Flight to Arras


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.

NAPOLEON HILL

Think and Grow Rich