Defeat Quotes

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George E. Woodberry

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Edwin Markham

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus

Robert South

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Thomas Jefferson

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michael de Montaigne

Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.

Robert South

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Henry Ward Beecher

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Will Rogers

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Galeazzo Ciano

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Lou Holtz

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

William McKinley

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Sun Tzu

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll
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