Accept Defeat Quotes

#1. We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

Lisa See

#2. Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

Bruce Lee

#3. Regardless of gender, one has to be willing to take what belongs and what has been promised, by not backing down and by not giving up. Never be willing to throw in the towel and accept defeat!

Ellen J. Barrier

#4. When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

Queen Elizabeth II

#5. The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

George Allen

#6. It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. I didn't know it then, but my persistence, perseverance, and unwillingness to accept defeat when things looked all but hopeless were part of the very character traits I would need to make it through World War II alive.

Louis Zamperini

#8. Your power, your great gift, is that you never give up. When something fails you make a new plan, and another, and another. You never accept defeat. You never give up.

A.C. Gaughen

#9. Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

Jean Chretien

#10. The power of positive thinking begins when you refuse to accept defeat, and start preparing yourself for future possibilities. The only thing standing in the way of your breakthrough, is you!

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#11. You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.

Ben Crenshaw

#12. Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

Pete Rose

#13. We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

Lisa See

#14. A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#16. If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

George Allen

#17. You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.

John Christopher

#18. Fight the Fight and Never Accept Defeat...
Life is like a three minute round. Step into that ring, feel the adrenaline,throw your punches and take them, respect your opposition; and win or lose, remember you went in fighting and came out a winner!

Carol Gambill

#19. I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Phil Gramm

#20. Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to
prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get,
that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian
Jiu-jitsu is.

Saulo Ribeiro

#21. Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

Bruce Lee

#22. I'd accept defeat. fighting doesn't preclude enduring.I can fight, and if fighting fails I can still endure.

Dean Koontz

#23. You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

Merlin Olsen

#24. 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

#25. He considered the importance of what he was to do, and calmed himself. He felt the dragon's mood and acknowledged it. It was a willingness to accept whatever fate brought, but without a resignation to defeat. Death might come, but with it might also come victory.

Raymond E. Feist

#26. He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he had failed and because he had no choice but to accept the world's terms: there is no mystery here. This was not insanity, but common sense.

Raymond Weaver

#27. If you can forget me, that's well and good. But if you can't, accept your defeat and surrender to me. Don't try to fight with my memories. I love you!

Nelson Jack

#28. There is really nothing you can do easily: live or die or accept fame or money or defeat, it's all hard.

Charles Bukowski

#29. What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.

Don Meyer

#30. Your life will change for the better when you finally accept and deal with the fact that you have a chronic attraction to poisonous people. Face it. Fight it. Defeat it. Setting a better standard shapes a better life.

Steve Maraboli

#31. We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.

Dick Bennett

#32. You should not be too proud and accept help when it is offered, Lenora. Being overconfident will lead to your defeat if not careful

James Terzian

#33. Unless you accept the possibility of defeat you will not eliminate desire.

Vadim Zeland

#34. If you say that you have accepted defeat, the world will let you go. 'We' have discovered this. Because, we had tried to win over the world and in doing so, we had to go through many incarnations. And in the end, I said that I have acknowledged defeat and settled down.

Dada Bhagwan

#35. Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#36. I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.

Richard M. Nixon

#37. I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

Maya Angelou

#38. Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way.

Tom Althouse

#39. Floyd did not accept the blame for his defeat. He blamed his fellow general Henry Wise for not committing some of his regiments to the battle. Wise reacted to the charge by calling Floyd "that bullet-hit son of a bitch.

Clint Johnson

#40. The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

George C. Marshall

#41. If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.

Sarah Lacy

#42. An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

John Cassavetes

#43. When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#44. There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Fay Weldon

#45. To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

William Arthur Ward

#46. And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

Vince Lombardi