Quote: Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory. Author: A. H. K. Boyd
Quote: You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. Author: Paul Brown American Football Coach
Quote: I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. Author: Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet
Quote: The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. Author: Josephus Daniels 1862-1948, American Publisher, Editor
Quote: Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. Author: James A. Garfield 1831-1881, Twentieth President of the USA
Quote: A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer
Quote: I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. Author: Lou Holtz 1937-, American Football Coach
Quote: The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn't hear the referee. Author: H. E. Jansen
Quote: Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity. Author: Greg Lake
Quote: I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. Author: Tom Landry 1924-, American Football Player, Coach
Quote: We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction. Author: Douglas Macarthur 1880-1964, American Army General in WW II
Quote: There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. Author: Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman
Quote: Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. Author: Richard M. Nixon 1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA
Quote: To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. Author: George Orwell 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''
Quote: Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility. Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer
Quote: The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of. Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer
Quote: A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself. Author: Jan Christian Smuts 1870-1950, South African General, Statesman, and Prime Minister
Quote: The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. Author: Sam Snead 1912-, American Golfer
Quote: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. Author: George E. Woodberry 1855-1930, American Literary Critic
Quote: For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good. Author: William Wordsworth 1770-1850, British Poet