Defeat Quotes Quotes & Sayings

You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting. — Vikrmn

There isn't anything I can tell you that you don't already know," Melly answered.
"Yes, but if we already know it then you're not telling us anything new," Bea said, thinking her way through the carriages of fear on the witch's train of thought, "and if we don't tell you what we know and what we don't know, then you won't know if you've actually told us something we don't know, and what you don't know we don't know won't hurt you."
Melly stared at Bea, her cigarette hanging from her lip in defeat.
"Did that make sense?" Joan asked.
"Yes," Melly said slowly, "but it probably shouldn't have done. — F.D. Lee

Some defeats are more satisfying than victories. — Chandrapal Khasiya

No one can defeat you, unless you defeat yourself. — Robin S. Sharma

I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me. — Trip Hawkins

Your belief system should be positive and empowering enough to influence a strong mental state and a positive attitude that will rise up to defeat any suggestion that you are destined to fail. — Archibald Marwizi

Defeat none but one; yourself; for a better self than you were before. — Vikrmn

One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such demonic people, never use the same immoral methods, because to defeat a poisonous snake you don't have to be a poisonous snake yourself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When failure knocks on your door, ignore it.
When defeat bangs on your door, lock it.
When success knocks on your door, answer it.
When greatness knocks on your door, seize it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A late victory is better than early defeat. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you try to win, you bind (create) enmity, and if you acknowledge defeat, you will be freed from enmity. — Dada Bhagwan

Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up. — Debasish Mridha

The Excellence Manifesto #2

I will resist impatience.
I will resist deceitfulness.
I will resist bitterness.
I will resist ignorance.
I will resist foolishness.
I will resist pridefulness.
I will resist unrighteousness.

I will conquer laziness.
I will subdue indifference.
I will beat incompetence.
I will defeat averageness.
I will overcome fearfulness.
I will transcend weakness.
I will quash unproductiveness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The price of defeat is bearing the burden. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

There are so many people who though can fight life and win greatly, yet they have imprisoned their own true strength and they just beg at the feet of defeat and miserable life, knowingly or unknowingly, at the expense of their true purpose! Awake whilst you have life and do something noble with all our might now! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Find in Jesus the power to defeat every foe. — Katy Kauffman

Defeat is curable;
failure is reversible. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Quiet courage is better than loud cowardice.
Quiet victory is better than loud defeat. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When I write I face my demons, and defeat them. — Jackie G. Mills

If you encounter defeat, you must persist to be a winner. — Debasish Mridha

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat. — Dejan Stojanovic

I will never see the day where I choose to fall upon my own sword of refuge. In knowing this, I also know that you will never ultimately defeat me; for my life is my own, and I will see to it accordingly. — Danish Sayanee

The bitterness of defeat adds to the sweetness of victory. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you can't defeat your ego how do you expect to defeat your competitors? — Mark Anthony Peterson

If you say that you have accepted defeat, the world will let you go. 'We' have discovered this. Because, we had tried to win over the world and in doing so, we had to go through many incarnations. And in the end, I said that I have acknowledged defeat and settled down. — Dada Bhagwan

Love is the only way to defeat Hate. — Tarif Naaz

Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it. — Vikrmn

If God is on your side, count loss as temporary, and defeat impossible. — Matshona Dhliwayo

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader. — Denis Markell

Let failuers be your reason to strengthen your determination and passion to succeed. — Vishwas Chavan

Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat. — Avijeet Das

We survivors face life's challenges with strength and courage, and defeat is never an option. We are insulated by the Grace of God, for we are His faithful. — Robert Palasciano

The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured. — Paulo Coelho

Joy turns tears into laughter.
Hope turns mourning into gladness.
Wisdom turns tragedy into fortune.
Faith turns defeat into triumph.
Love turns enmity into friendship. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Dear 2016,

If I has any defeats in your term, I am glad they were on my terms!

Best,
The Defeated Winner — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success. — Jocelyn Murray

Goliath always has a weakness; an ant is small but can defeat an elephant. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A tough life can be defeated only by the tougher person! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To entertain your worries and woes, is to invite the inevitability of defeat - into your life. — Eleesha

Victory, after defeat, always tastes sweeter. — Ed Gawrys Jr

Courage doesn't defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Victims have succumbed to defeat, and their spirit has been conquered and crushed. We survivors are fearless gladiators, and our spirit can never be broken. — Robert Palasciano

Life is a battle; face it.
Life is a jungle; explore it.
Life is a puzzle; study it.
Life is a mystery; solve it.
Life is a game; beat it.
Life is an opponent; defeat it.
Life is a treasure; cherish it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose. — Dennis Miller

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other. — Rick Riordan

To be miles from defeat you have to be taking steps to victory. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I might live a life of struggle but I will not live a life of defeat! — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Be confident when facing your enemies; be humble when you defeat them. Break records, then shatter them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You rolled me once, you rolled me twice and the third time, you had taught to win the game. — Auliq Ice

Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward. — T.D. Jakes

Winners play to win. Losers play to avoid defeat. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Through joy, the Soul confirms your ability to remain victorious - even in the midst of defeat. — Eleesha

Love dies when the lover in us dies. It snaps when the lover in us gives up in defeat. When the cold, practical us takes over the the self-image of us a lover. When the lover in us wins, the practical us recedes and the magic takes over, and when the lover in us loses, the practical us takes over and the magic recedes and the more the lover in us dies, the less courage we have in magic until we reach a point where we even disbelieve the very notion of magic, and magic within us. Who would believe the madness of moonlight in broad daylight? Love dies from hunger for love that love is unable to feed. If I tell you that just as the cold rays of harsh sunlight shall give away to the silver cool of the moonlight beams, your disbelief can turn to magic,are you going to believe? That the stars are there even during the day, that we are the ones unable to see, would you believe? — Srividya Srinivasan

A writer's tools are desperation, humiliation, loneliness, love, affection, heartache, happiness, glee, defeat, victory, setbacks, and a desire for personal redemption. People with the experience to know of such things relate that in order to write one must suffer an alleyway of anguish, and experience an array of physical and emotional pain. More than anything else, emotional growth, and writing are each reflective of the immeasurable gain accomplished through studious reflection. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Winning without honor, is worse than a resounding defeat. — Frank Sonnenberg

In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic of the secret garden is that it exists in our imagination. There are no limits, no borderlines. The secret garden leads to the marigolds of Mogadishu and the magnolias of Kingston and when the heat turns us sticky and sweet and unwilling to be claimed by defeat we own the night. We own our bodies. We own our lives. — Diriye Osman

Thais believed that in defeat the downtrodden, courageous soul would rise with the fiercest determination for victory. That is when the true spirit of warriors shined through and soared. A new day would dawn and with it a renewed hope would rise above the blood and the ash, strengthening even the weakest and igniting a birth of revolution. — Madison Thorne Grey