| Author |
Quotes |
| Arthur Calwell | It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. |
| Ernest Hemingway | But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. |
| Gandhi | Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. |
| Henry Miller | When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. |
| Joseph B Wirthlin | There is no defeat except for those who give up. |
| Josephus Daniels | Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. |
| Marcus Garvey | If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. |
| Michael de Montaigne | There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. |
| Michel de Montaigne | There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. |
| Norman Vincent Peale | Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. |
| Ralph W Sockman | Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. |
| Robert South | Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. |
| Russell Baker | The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. |
| Sallust | A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. |
| Saul Bellow | There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. |
| Vergil | Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? |
| Walt Whitman | Many a good man I have seen go under. |
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