Defeat Quotes

“there are so many things wrong with me, so many cracks in my foundation, that patching one will hardly help with the stability of the whole. One less corner where the cold seeps in doesn’t matter when the roof still needs fixing and the doors don’t sit right in their frames and why bother with one crack when the whole house is falling down around you? I’ll spend my whole life trying to repair myself and still die a broken person. It sounds exhausting.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“The optimists believe defeat is just a temporary setback.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“When we neglect to tally our victories, our losses become too many to count.”
― Broms The Poet, Feast

“The optimists believe defeat is just a temporary setback.”
― Seligman Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“It is so much easier to give into them than to try and fight them off. It’s a relief, like letting go the lead of a dog that’s been wrenching your shoulder with the force of its pulling. But now I have a dog to chase, and I’m running in circles after every catastrophic scenario, struggling to breathe.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“Never let them see you sweat.
& even if you have to forfeit, smile.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“There are certain wishes that must be clipped like wings off a thriving butterfly.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“For optimists, defeat is a challenge, a mere setback on the road to inevitable victory.”
― Seligman Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“... there are so many things wrong with me, so many cracks in my foundation, that patching one will hardly help with the stability of the whole. One less corner where the cold seeps in doesn’t matter when the roof still needs fixing and the doors don’t sit right in their frames and why bother with one crack when the whole house is falling down around you? I’ll spend my whole life trying to repair myself and still die a broken person. It sounds exhausting.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“When I think about the negative things that happened in my life, I don’t feel defeated; I feel stronger.”
― Nadine Sadaka Boulos

“The defeat that had frightened her in the faces of black men was the defeat of black forever defined by white.”
― Alice Walker

“Your thoughts direct your life. What you think is much more important that most people realize. When you lose, you are not defeated; it is merely a temporary set back or learning opportunity. You are never defeated until you declare defeat and quit fighting for what you want.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Men of the Code: Living as a Superior Man

“Territorial are dogs, and whatever the opposite.”
― Milaristw

“For optimists, defeat is a challenge, a mere setback on the road to inevitable victory.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“To ‘give up’ on the idea of ‘giving up’ is the first step in ‘getting up.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I would suggest that many of our perceived defeats are actually God saving us from the things that would have defeated us had we actually achieved them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Do not get discouraged in defeat.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.”
― William McKinley

“Can we defeat death, yes we can, god's favor matters the most.”
― Santosh Kumar

“Quite often, an individual act of commitment and courage makes the difference between war and peace or victory and defeat.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“Disobedient leads to defeat.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Disobedience leads to defeat.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Defeat all coming viruses as similar to coronavirus, with love-virus, try it since it carries Divine power and healing.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“How is it we can cry tears when we defeat ourselves?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“How many times have we set the stage for our greatest defeats? And how many times did victory elude us because we chose to deny that fact?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You cannot enter someone's life with your lies and tricks and stay trying through the wrong ways. As a result, your success is also the defeat.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“If you fall to your fears today, your tomorrow will fall before it had the chance to become your next today.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The attitude of “I can’t” is really a decision of “I won’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Failures are like alarm clocks. Alarm clocks wake us up from our dream and remind us that we have to go to work. Failures wake us up from our dream and remind us that we have to live as we really are; mortals and fallible.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“One cannot defeat evil power with dialogues or weapons. Indeed, one can only defeat that with the power of love and purity of its prayers that actually, we have forgotten in our material life”
― Ehsan Sehgal