defeat quotes

• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt) [defeat]
• Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. (Henry Ward Beecher) [defeat/school/truth]
• 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) [defeat/defeat/defeat/men]
• Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. (Henry Ward Beecher) [defeat]
• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. ( Napoleon I) [being/defeat]
• You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment. () [think/defeat/achievements]
• Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! (Thomas Carlyle) [soul & body/mind/defeat/health]
• The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. (Winston Churchill) [more/agreeable/defeat]
• Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill. (Winston Churchill) [war/defeat//goodwill]
• In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. (Winston Churchill) [war/defeat//goodwill]
• Man is not made for defeat. (Ernest Hemingway) [defeat]
• 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. (Napoleon Hill) [defeat/sound/more]
• Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. (Napoleon Hill) [form/misfortune/defeat]
• There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose. () [defeat/weakness]
• Victory and defeat are each of the same price. (Thomas Jefferson) [defeat/price]
• When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them. (Charles Lamb) [rarity/people/defeat/parents]
• Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [defeat]
• In ourselves are triumph and defeat. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [defeat]
• In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. (Henry Miller) [attempt/defeat/death/defeat]
• 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 Miller) [defeat]
• 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) [defeat/willpower]
• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt) [defeat]
• Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [defeat]
• It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. (Ben Stein) [defeat/willpower/life/human]
• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. () [defeat/start/being]
• The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. (Oscar Wilde) [ugly/knowledge/defeat]
• I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat. (Russell Crowe) [defeat]
• Every victory is also a defeat. (Gloria Swanson) [defeat]
• Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. () [defeat/laughter/wisdom]
• There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence. (Cesar Chavez) [thing/defeat]
• I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat. (Russell Crowe) [defeat]

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