| "Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat." »Ryszard Kapuscinski |
| "Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power." »Gerard Hargraves |
| "What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better." »Wendell Phillips |
| "defeat never comes to any man until he admits it." »Josephus Daniels |
| "There are many victories worse than a defeat." »George Eliot |
| "When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield." »Quintilian |
| "You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed." »Napolean Hill |
| "defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." »George E. Woodberry |
| "The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist." »Rabindranath Tagore |
| "Nothing can cause turmoil and the defeat of accomplishment as quickly as disorganization." »Unknown |
| "defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus." »Robert South |
| "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." »William G. McAdoo |
| "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary." »Mahatma Gandhi |
| "You defeated me But you won't defeat me again Because you have grown all you can grow.... but I am still growing (about Mount Everest)" »Sir Edmund Hillary |
| "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." »Saul Bellow |
| "Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him." »Russell Baker |
| "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." »Robert Green Ingersoll |
| "Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger." »John Bay |
| "A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means." »Sallust |
| "Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything." »George Lois |
| "Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory." »Orison Swett Marden |
| "Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory." »Douglas MacArthur |
| "The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "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 |
| "The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become." »Ashley Montague |
| "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 |
| "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." »Napolean Hill |
| "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." »William Orville Douglas |
| "If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice." »Pan Ku |
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