We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou
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. – Henry Ward Beecher
There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory. – A. H. K. Boyd
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. – Paul Brown
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. – Robert Browning
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. – Sir Winston Churchill
My lowest days as a Christian and There Were Low Ones–Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House. – Charles Caleb Colton
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. – James Garfield
The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didnt hear the referee. – H. E. Jansen
Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity. – Greg Lake
Ive learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. – Tom Landry
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction. – General Douglas MacArthur
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. – Jawaharlal Nehru
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. – Norman Vincent Peale
A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself. – Jan Christian Smuts
Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? – Virgil
For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good. – William Wordsworth
