Defeat Quotes

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

Do not be afraid of defeat. you are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

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

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.