62 Best Defeat Quotes & Sayings

Published on September 8, 2016 , under Quotes

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1. If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar

2. You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it
Maya Angelou

3. Falling Down Isnt Defeat Is When You Refuse To Get Up
Anonymous

4. Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Bruce Lee

5. Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino

6. Defeat Is Not Bitter Unless You Swallow It.
Joe Clark

7. We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

8. My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me, it has only strengthened me.
Dr. Steve Maraboli

9. The Hardest Thing In Life Is To Admit Defeat But Its Is Also The Most Noble Thing To Do. You Just End Up Losing More Than You Would Have In The First Place By Fighting It Just Lay Down And Give Up.
Andrew Medrano

10. If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Simone de Beauvoir

11. Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin

12. We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
Japanese Proverb

13. What is defeat1 Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips

14. Victory Is A Good Wine Defeated Is Good University.
Mehmet Murat IIdan

15. Defeat is a state of mind. You are defeated only when you accept defeat, and assume the hopeless mindset of a defeated person.
Donald Trump

16. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

17. Every Defeat Every Heartbreak Every Loss Contains Its Own Seed, Its Own Lesson On How To Improve Your Performance The Next Time.
OG Mandino

18. The Devil Cannot Defeat Me People Cannot Disillusion Me Whether Cannot Weary Me Sickness Cannot Stop Me Money Cannot Buy Me Governments Cannot Silence Me And Hell Cannot Handle Me I Am The Child Of Most High God.
Anonymous

19. Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be Ashamed.
Proverb

20. To Admit Defeat Isnt Failure It Is Courage.
Mickaveli

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

22. Not everything in this life will go your way you must accept defeat, so that you can build & start again.
Anonymous

23. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll

24. Its Easy To Do Anything In Victory Its In Defeat That A Man Reveals Himself.
Floyd Patterson

25. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

26. Defeat Is Only A Word Defeat Was The Beginning Of A Victory.
Launa Rissadia

27. Victory Is Sweetest When You've Known Defeat.
Malcolm Forbes

28. Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Rober South

29. Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Ralph W. Sockman

30. But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway

31. 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

32. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

33. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Russell Baker

34. Being Defeated Is Only A Temporary Condition Giving Up Is What Makes It Permanent.
Marilyn Vos Savant

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

36. In The Face Of Defeat In The Face Of Defeat We Emerge Strengthened To Face Our Next Victory.
Eleesha

37. While One May Encounter Many Defeats One Must Not Be Defeated.
Maya Angelou

38. Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
Margaret Shepard

39. Defeat doesn't finish a man quit does.
Richard Nixon

40. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill

41. To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility — these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
William Arthur Ward

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

43. Defeat Is Not The Worst Of Failures Not To Have Tried Is The True Failure.
George E. Woodbury

44. Never be unduly elated by victory or depressed by defeat.
H. Poter

45. Defeat Is A State Of Mind No One Is Ever Defeated Until Defeat Has Been Accepted As A Reality.
Bruce Lee

46. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Anonymous

47. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

48. The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. Television Catchphrases.
Anonymous

49. Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy

50. Life is very similar to a boxing ring. Defeat is not final when you fall down… It is final when you refuse to get up and fight back.
Anonymous

51. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

52. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Doniels

53. Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.
Orrin Woodward

54. It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory.
Andre Bramble

55. We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
Ronald Reagan

56. It is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.
Dr Abdul Kalaam

57. We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
Denis Kearney