Defeat Quotes - Page 3

Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear.

The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one.

Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time.

Far too often the ‘things’ that men define as success do little more than successfully destroy the lives of the very men who achieve those ‘things.’ And while I must admit that there is an authentic element of success in all of that, it’s the kind of success that I would much prefer to successfully avoid.

Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.

Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

The blame game is already a lost game, so don't attempt dressing up to play it!

Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apartand you sit in the battle field stitching back yourselfone piece at a timelaughing in the faces of all defeats.

I'm not yet defeated, just waiting for my next turn to throw the dice again.

They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.

All through the day, there are two voices that compete for your attention - the voice of faith and the voice of defeat. Tune into the voice of faith because it is the voice of victory!

You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of what you mastered, and powerful because of what you conquered.

It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.

You thought it would break you in two, but it made you twice as strong.

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing

I'm not going to lie: there are no good options here.

Any success against a false target is a false victory.

Wherever you are — it’s too early to draw a conclusion. You may be down, but you’re not done. Today’s defeat could be tomorrow’s gold.

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

Oh ... why not?' he smiled. "This valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England... it is here that I have experienced some of my greatest successes - and several notable defeats. Defeat, you know, is not such a bad thing, if there's not too much of it... it makes for humility, and humility makes for caution, therefore for safety.' ("Trace")

In life and in a boxing ring, the defeat is not declared when you fall down. It is declared only when you refuse to get up

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

Let me not fear defeat or death,Let me not fear being forgotten,Let my defiance sustain my soul,Let it remain with me ever after.Poem: Prayer to the God of Rebellion, in ‘Chameleon Lights

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

Many Christians... find themselves defeated by the most psychological weapon that Satan uses against them. This weapon has the effectiveness of a deadly missile. Its name? Low self-esteem. Satan's greatest psychological weapon is a gut level feeling of inferiority, inadequacy, and low self-worth This feeling shackles many Christians, in spite of wonderful spiritual experiences and knowledge of God's Word. Although they understand their position as sons and daughters of God, they are tied up in knots, bound by a terrible feeling inferiority, and chained to a deep sense of worthlessness.

In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will.

When failure knocks on your door, ignore it.When defeat bangs on your door, lock it.When success knocks on your door, answer it.When greatness knocks on your door, seize it.

In battle, it is not the strongest or the bravest or those with the greater numbers who win. Victory belongs to the side that best understands the price of defeat.

Accepting defeat is not wisdom.

If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.

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.

We may run into many downfalls in life, but with a mighty God on our side those downfalls have already been defeated.

It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.

I might live a life of struggle but I will not live a life of defeat!

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Don’t allow the challenges to overpower you. Choose a positive attitude and persistent endurance over defeat.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

Only the vanquished remember history.

Your defeat begins of the exact spot, which you had felt secure.

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

Only ignorance makes us put up with defeat, then instead of being exalted we are humiliated

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.

My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.

Keep running; keep dreaming, keep alive the flame of hope; defeat and despair will not catch up with you

People with inferiority intentions do not go after their dreams not because they can't go; but because their passion is not strong enough to turn the wheels of success...and there they go, becoming losers, defeated by their obstacles!

When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring only grasses thrive. I sat down on my hat and wept bitterly till I almost forgot time.A thicket of summer grassIs all that remainsOf the dreams and ambitionsOf ancient warriors.

If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

Failure is temporary, but defeat is permanent.

From victory we learn little, from defeat - everything.

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!

They were never defeated they were only killed.