Quotes

Quotes about Defeat


Yet tears to human suffering are due;
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

William Wordsworth

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.

William Lloyd Garrison

These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory,
In the dusk of eternity meet;--


Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;--
Under the laurel the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.

Francis Miles Finch

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne

Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.

The majority of failures in life are simply the victims of their mental defeats.

I'm defeated and I know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

George Herbert Palmer

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Napoleon Hill

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats, approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

Rabindranath Tagore

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Thomas E. Lawrence

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Rosalind Russell

Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being.

Kazi Shams

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.

William Gibbs McAdoo

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Thomas Paine

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

Preston Bradley

More than any other religion or, indeed, than any other element in human experience, Christianity has made for the intellectual advance of man in reducing languages to writing, creating literatures, promoting education from primary grades through institutions of university level, and stimulating the human mind and spirit to fresh explorations into the unknown. It has been the largest single factor in combating, on a world-wide scale, such ancient foes of man as war, famine, and the exploitation of one race by another. More than any other religion, it has made for the dignity of human personality. This it has done by a power inherent within it of lifting lives from selfishness, spiritual mediocrity, and moral defeat and disintegration, to unselfish achievement and contagious moral and spiritual power and by the high value which it set upon every human soul through the possibilities which it held out of endless growth in fellowship with the eternal God.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

As a sinful man looking at death and beyond it, into the eternal world, I need salvation. Nothing else will meet my case. There is something genuinely at stake in every man's life, the climax whereof is death. Dying is inevitable, but arriving at the destination God offers to me is not inevitable. It is not impossible to go out of the way and fail to arrive. Christian doctrine has always urged that life eternal is something which may conceivably be missed. It is possible to neglect this great salvation and to lose it eternally, even though no man may say that anything is impossible with God or that his grace may ultimately be defeated. I know it is no longer fashionable to talk about Hell, one good reason for this being that to make religion into a prudential insurance policy is to degrade it. The Faith is not a fire-escape. (Continued tomorrow).

J. S. Whale

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.

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.

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.

Marcus Garvey

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Authors | Quotes | Digests | Submit | Interact | Store

Copyright © Classics Network. Contact Us