Defeat Quotes
The word defeat can be used in two ways. In one sense it signifies frustration, the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals. It happens when there has is an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest. In the other sense it refers to getting the better of, or win a victory over something. In this sense it signifies the successful attempt at defeating the other. Wins and defeats are equally important as you cannot get to know the meaning of either till you have experienced them with respect to the other.
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.
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These quotes are used to mark the significance of defeating someone in a competition and also signify the sense of achievement that the winner has after defeating his opponent. On the other hand these quotes can be used to mark the sufferings and the pain of the loser when he has lost to his opponent.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michael de Montaigne
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Gandhi
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.
Robert South
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Wendell L. Willkie
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Saul Bellow
Many a good man I have seen go under.
Walt Whitman
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Russell Baker
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
Henry Ward Beecher
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Marcus Fabuis Quintilianus
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Arthur Calwell
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Ralph W Sockman
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
Norman Vincent Peale
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
There is no defeat except for those who give up.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits
Richard M. Nixon
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel De Montaigne
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult
Winston Churchill
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Quintilian
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?
Vergil
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it
Lou Holtz
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Ralph W. Sockman
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun-tzu
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
Winston Churchill
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat
Paul Brown
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
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