Defeat Quotes

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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

- Adm. Gary Roughead

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

- Adam Spence

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

- Admiral Sir Alan West

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

- Adam Loewen

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

- Adrian Coote

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

- Aftan Romanczak

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

- Adam Kesler

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

- Adrian Rushmore

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.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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.

- Oprah Winfrey

If you can accept losing, you can`t win.

- Vince Lombardi

In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity

- Winston Churchill

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.

- Ben Stein

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it`s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you`re fighting for.

- Paulo Coelho

Victory is sweetest when you`ve known defeat.

- Malcolm S. Forbes

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

- Alfred Adler

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

- George E. Woodberry

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

You`ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That`s when you develop character.

- Richard M. Nixon