As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
- Galeazzo Ciano
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
- George E. Woodberry
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
- Winston Churchill
I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.
- Unknown
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
- Lydia M. Child
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
- Richard M. Nixon
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
- Carl Sandburg
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
- Sallust
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
- Mao Zedong
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
- Alfred Adler
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
- Vince Lombardi
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he uits.
- Richard M. Nixon
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
- Edwin Markham
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
- Queen Victoria
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
- Ernest Hemingway
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
- Bill Bradley
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
- Cesar Chavez
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
- Abdul Kalam
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.
- Unknown
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.
- Ninon de L'Enclos
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
- John Boyd Orr
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
- Thomas Jefferson
Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
- G. Gordon Liddy
The first goal of man should be to defeat himself.
- Unknown
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
- Bertolt Brecht
Domestic policy can only defeat us, foreign policy can kill us.
- John F. Kennedy
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
- Wallis Simpson
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
- Oskar Schindler
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.
- Roy M. Cohn
I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.
- Russell Crowe
In defeat, unbeatable, in victory, unbearable.
- Edward Marsh
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
- Tom Landry
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
- William McKinley
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
- Simone de Beauvoir
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
- Zig Ziglar
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
- Russell Baker
