74 Defeat Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing defeat sayings.
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Short Defeat Sayings
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“There is no defeat except for those who give up.” —Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.” —Adolf Hitler
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” —John F. Kennedy
“The beauty of defeat is that when you fall, you fly.” —Lionel Suggs
“In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.” —William McKinley
“If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.” —Zig Ziglar
“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.” —Alexandre Dumas
“Just because I face a defeat does not mean I am defeated.” —Jeffrey Fry
“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” —Malcolm Forbes
“Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.” —Proverb
“Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing.” —Kierstan White
“Falling down is not defeat. Defeat is, when you refuse to get up.” —Paulo Coelho
“I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.” —Tom Landry
“The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.” —Sun Tzu
“We learn little from victory, much from defeat.” —Japanese Proverb
“Defeat Is Not Bitter Unless You Swallow It.” —Joe Clark
“A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.” —Jean Paul Sartre
“A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.” —Jan Christian Smuts
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.” —Josephus Daniels
“While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.” —Maya Angelou
“We are never defeated unless we give up on God.” —Ronald Reagan
“Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?” —Virgil
“We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!” —Rumi
“You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.” —Paul Brown
“Defeat is in your mind. Resilience is in your soul.” —Keri Murphy
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.” —Gandhi
“An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.” —Millard Fillmore
“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.” —Henry Rollins
Defeat Sayings
“You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.” —Richard Nixon
“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” —Ernest Hemingway
“Only ignorance makes us put up with defeat, then instead of being exalted we are humiliated.” —Sunday Adelaja
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” —Edwin Markham
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” —Robert Green Ingersoll
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.” —Winston Churchill
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” —Marilyn vos Savant
“It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.” —Imran Khan
“Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.” —Chris Bradford
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” —Bernard Williams
“If you win, you need not have to explain…If you lose, you should not be there to explain!” —Adolf Hitler
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” —Bruce Lee
“What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.” —Wendell Phillips
“Defeat brings a lesson, it gives a chance to rebuild, a chance to start again, with the knowledge of what does not work.” —Leon Brown
“You’re not defeated when you lose a battle.You are defeated when you give up the struggle.” —Mouloud Benzadi
“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.” —Louis L’Amour
“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.” —Jean- Paul Sartre
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.” —Anais Nin
“What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.” —Paulo Coelho
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” —Marilyn vos Savant
“Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.” —Dejan Stojanovic
“I bring out the worst in my enemies and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves.” —Roy Cohn
“I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.” —Lou Holtz
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” —Marilyn vos Savant
“We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.” —Abdul Kalam
“Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.” —Napoleon Hill
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” —George Edward
“To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!” —Mehmet Murat ildan
“Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.” —Horatio Nelson
“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
“Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.” —Jawaharlal Nehru
” It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory.” —Andre Bramble
Top Ten Defeat Sayings
Here you will find top ten defeat sayings selected by our team.
- “It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.” —Imran Khan
- “Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
- “While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.” —Maya Angelou
- “But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” —Ernest Hemingway
- “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
- “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” —Bruce Lee
- “To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!” —Mehmet Murat ildan
- “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” —Bernard Williams
- “If you win, you need not have to explain…If you lose, you should not be there to explain!” —Adolf Hitler
- “Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.” —Josephus Daniels
