Defeat means to cause someone or something to fail; to beat it. If you’ve been defeated, you may have failed the first time, but that’s no reason for you to give up. Defeat should make you stronger, and give you the desire to go again. May these Defeat Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.” Zig Ziglar
2. “The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” Robert Green Ingersoll
3. “Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.” Atal Bihari Vajpayee
4. “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
5. “A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.” Louis L’Amour
6. “Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.” Napoleon Hill
7. “Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.” A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
8. “Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.” LL Cool J
9. “When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” Paulo Coelho
10. “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Ernest Hemingway
11. “Winners don’t believe in fate like others do. They simply cannot accept defeat.” David Silva
12. “We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.” A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
13. “Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.” Robert South
14. “There are many victories worse than a defeat.” George Eliot
15. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” Malcolm Forbes
17. “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” Bernard Williams
18. “No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” Al Gore
19. “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” Bruce Lee
20. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” Denis Waitley
21. “You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.” Christy Mathewson
22. “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” George Edward Woodberry
23. “There are people who try to judge. I’m cool with that. I don’t care what nobody say – the only thing that can defeat hate is love.” Young M.A
24. “You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.” Richard Nixon
25. “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
26. “Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.” Josephus Daniels
27. “Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” Wilma Rudolph
28. “I bring out the worst in my enemies and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves.” Roy Cohn
29. “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
30. “Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” Ralph Ellison
31. “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Sun Tzu
32. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
33. “There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.” Kin Hubbard
34. “Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.” Horatio Nelson
35. “In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.” Robert Collier
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