Defeat Quotes

“It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there's more crud underneath those rocks.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert
to her next disaster.
Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she became
resourceful.
She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, even
when she claimed defeat.
An inconvenient truth, yet it was right there, in her face,
betraying her self-punishments and assumptions.
She kept overcoming things, dammit, aggravating herself.
She still felt so much joy, despite her efforts to be miserable.
Her life was full of miracles and spectacles that she was afraid
to rely on so she didn’t know how to enjoy, how to be thankful,
without guilt.
She didn’t want to win and she didn’t want to lose.
Ambiguity intrigued her and she found passion in the gaps
between hope and despair.”
― G.G. Renee Hill, The Beautiful Disruption

“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down
again.
Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are
doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding
perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't
be disappointed."
If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But
after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a
mountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowed
to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not
God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, or
dominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, to
take what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'd
been kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed,
deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... but all that was over now.”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“Face it; life's gonna chew you up and spit you out. If you're lucky you'll get stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe and be carried far, far away from it all.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with the old days. It is in the shamed darting eyes of the defeated. It is in the faces of the little boys who regard our triumphant columns with fear and fascination. And above all it is in the thousands of beaten, dusty soldiers who stream along the roads towards the stockades. Their feet clump wearily, mechanically, hopelessly on the still endless road of war. They move as haggard, gray masses, in which the individual had neither life nor meaning. It is impossible to see in these men the quality that made them stand up and fight like demons out of hell a few shorts months ago.”
― Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back

“Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine.”
― Anthony Liccione

“I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“God save me from another such victory.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“The locust has no king
Just noise and hard language
They talk me over”
― David Eugene Edwards

“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.”
― Pat Riley, The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players

“Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened?”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out. (From Everybody ahead, or getting the most out of life)”
― Orison Swett Marden

“The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.”
― Kimberly Derting, The Body Finder

“Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Dorsai!

“You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting.”
― Vikrmn, 10 Alone

“People with inferiority intentions do not go after their dreams not because they can't go; but because their passion is not strong enough to turn the wheels of success...and there they go, becoming losers, defeated by their obstacles!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.”
― William Hazlitt

“Regardless of gender, one has to be willing to take what belongs and what has been promised, by not backing down and by not giving up. Never be willing to throw in the towel and accept defeat!”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This is why I laid the cobblestone before me for this Dream to be achieved.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

“We all can be defeated; to cope with this eternal fact opens great ways for the future glories!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A retreat from someone or something isn't unusual. Just as how you edge closer to see better, at times you may need to take a step back to get a clearer view.”
― Rajuda

“You will have to reconcile yourself, as I do, as Isabel does, to being the defeated.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Kingmaker's Daughter

“…Its not how you handle defeat or adversity, its how you get up that matters".”
― Bruce Poon Tip, Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business

“And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs.”
― C.N. Faust, Baron of Blood

“What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means a tragedy, but to consider it as a tragedy is in fact the greatest tragedy! In your every defeat, you must know that the paths of the victory never disappear; try those roads again!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan