Top 87 Defeat Inspirational Quotes
#1. Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.
William Strunk Jr.
#3. God's Blessing are more numerous than those growing trees. /Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, Defeat of the Infidels/
Steven Gould
#6. We survivors face life's challenges with strength and courage, and defeat is never an option. We are insulated by the Grace of God, for we are His faithful.
Robert Palasciano
#7. The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
Edith Hamilton
#8. The only way to defeat death is to enjoy life
H.J. Cronin
#9. My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
Steve Maraboli
#10. I've never considered the possibility of defeat. I've never planned for it. That's the job for those people who plan for such things. My job is to only plan for success ... victory; it has my complete focus.
Spuds Crawford
#11. I can't defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.
T.D. Jakes
#13. A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.
Hannah More
#14. No matter what horrible circumstances we may face in our lives, we must never lose hope, for losing hope is the beginning of our own self defeat.
Consolee Nishimwe
#15. Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.
Alex Ferguson
#16. Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apart
and you sit in the battle field
stitching back yourself
one piece at a time
laughing in the faces of all defeats.
Chetan M. Kumbhar
#17. God didn't create you to walk around in self-defeat in any form. Neither are we fashioned to become someone's emotional slave; adhering to the harshness of their words in humility and remorse, while fearing a verbal lashing if we reject their false authority.
T.K. Ware
#18. LEXI: I feel like I belong here. Hell, maybe I always did belong, and I just needed to leave to see how good I had it. This place is home, and I love my job.......Maybe that means the big city defeated me.....
RYDER:Nah, you just figured out what you want. There's no defeat in that.
T.S. Joyce
#19. Oh what force on earth could be weaker than the feeble strength of one" like me remembering the way it could have been. Help me with this barricade. No surrender. No defeat. A spectre's haunting Albert Street. I am your pamphleteer.
John K. Samson
#20. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
G.K. Chesterton
#21. I didn't just magically end up becoming the person that I am today. I also dealt with different kinds of pain and hardships, and I chose to fight and win over these battles instead of letting it defeat me and become just a mere victim.
Kcat Yarza
#23. Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
Napoleon Hill
#24. You rolled me once, you rolled me twice and the third time, you had taught to win the game.
Auliq Ice
#25. The "Warrior Ethos" emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a "guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
Dan Smee
#26. If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.
Jack Ma
#29. If you encounter defeat, you must persist to be a winner.
Debasish Mridha
#30. 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
#31. There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit
Napoleon Hill
#32. A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin.
And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.
David Baldacci
#33. Some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.
Beth Moore
#34. If there's one thing I love, its people who wear their failures on their sleeve. And go on to teach the unspoken/spoken gospel of what not to do. And who still maintain that it CAN be done, and aren't going around preaching defeat to those who are still eager to try.
Njabulo P. Vilakazi
#35. Did is a word of achievement,
Won't is a word of retreat,
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.
Ann Landers
#37. Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Everything in his life had led to this moment
every decision both good and bad, every heart-ache, every struggle, every victory and every defeat. And then he hesitated and that moment was over, squandered, and gone forever.
Testy McTesterson
#39. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George E. Woodberry
#40. Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.
Sonya Hartnett
#41. Victims have succumbed to defeat, and their spirit has been conquered and crushed. We survivors are fearless gladiators, and our spirit can never be broken.
Robert Palasciano
#42. Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
Napoleon Hill
#43. Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Bruce Lee
#45. Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.
P.C. Cast
#46. The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.
Joel Osteen
#47. Let failuers be your reason to strengthen your determination and passion to succeed.
Vishwas Chavan
#48. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.
Charlie Chaplin
#50. Defeat is only a word. Defeat was the beginning of a victory.
Launa Rissadia
#51. In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.
Paulo Coelho
#53. Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
Og Mandino
#54. Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration; but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom.
V. Raymond Edman
#55. Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.
Virgil
#56. plunge ahead, put one foot in front of the other, straighten your back and your shoulders and everything else that is likely to slump, buck up and go forward, and in this way, every obstacle, be it physical or only imaged, falls face down in obeisance and in absolute defeat...
Jamaica Kincaid
#57. It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.
Madonna Ciccone
#59. If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
Dick Vermeil
#60. Whatever happened to "In victory, magnanimity; in defeat, defiance." So said Frederick the Great.
George Carlin
#61. I will never see the day where I choose to fall upon my own sword of refuge. In knowing this, I also know that you will never ultimately defeat me; for my life is my own, and I will see to it accordingly.
Danish Sayanee
#62. There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan ... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
John F. Kennedy
#63. It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."
Joel Osteen
#64. Defeat for good cause is greater than victory for the wrong cause.
Sipendr
#65. It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory.
Andre Bramble
#66. When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#68. To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.
Preston Morgan
#69. Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.
Patricia Briggs
#70. A revolutionary who is out to defeat his enemies could use their weapons, but not their rules.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#71. When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that ... the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
Elbert Hubbard
#72. 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
#73. Someone who can't see the opponent standing right in front of him, can't defeat the opponent that lies beyond.
Haruichi Furudate
#75. Being afraid is not a sign of weakness. Being afraid is a sign of a will to live, it is an indication that we place value in our lives and those in it. The only defeat in fear is allowing your fear to defeat you.
Shenita Etwaroo
#76. Through joy, the Soul confirms your ability to remain victorious - even in the midst of defeat.
Eleesha
#78. Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.
Izzeldin Abuelaish
#79. 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
#80. 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
#82. To entertain your worries and woes, is to invite the inevitability of defeat - into your life.
Eleesha
#83. Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin
#84. Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
Bill Moyers
#85. He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
John Steinbeck
#86. Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.
Paulo Coelho
#87. Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.
Lysa TerKeurst
