quotations about defeat
Each of my defeats is your victory
And I walk barefoot on a field of swords
You have mastered
KERLI
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"Savages"
Overmatched, outwitted
Defeat is my only name
PROJECT 86
"When Darkness Reigns"
A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Treasury of Religious 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
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS
The Life of Woodrow Wilson
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Defeat is no hero's tale.
THINKMAN
"Never a Tear", Life Is Full Time Occupation
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
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?
One test of strength is the ability to take defeat graciously.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
Defeat is a tonic to a brave man.
AMERICAN PROVERB
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
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
BILL BRADLEY
attributed, The Greatest Quotations of All Time
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
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
We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
JAPANESE PROVERB
It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
BEN ROBERTSON
Red Hills and Cotton
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