Quotes About Temporary Defeat

#1. Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

#2. One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

#3. There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit

Napoleon Hill

#4. Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

Napoleon Hill

#5. Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

#6. You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Napoleon Hill

#7. Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

#8. To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

Bruce Lee

#9. What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

#10. There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

#11. Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Napoleon Hill

#13. We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".

Stephen Jay Gould

#14. If you're funny as a woman, people think it might be because someone else helped you.

Alice Lowe

#15. In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .

E. M. Forster

#17. Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

William Arthur Ward

#18. What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

Robert M. Pirsig

#19. Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

Napoleon Hill

#20. We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

Napoleon Hill

#21. Constantly through thought you are creating your inner conditions and helping to create the conditions around you. So keep your thoughts on the positive side, think about the best that could happen, think about the good things you want to happen.

Peace Pilgrim

#22. Autumn is the time of balance and of
sacrifice, a time when the light is defeated by darkness, a time
when night takes over and brings the coming winter. The
ancient wisdom says that those who long for light must face
their inner darkness and overcome it.

Tony Riches

#23. There's a light somewhere.
It may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.

Charles Bukowski

#24. Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

James Frey

#25. If God is on your side, count loss as temporary, and defeat impossible.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. 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.

Denis Waitley

#27. I can't be sure, of course, but I'd compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen

Stephenie Meyer

#28. To eat communion bread will be to taste the world's indifference, and to immerse myself in nothingness.

Clarice Lispector

#29. Failure is temporary, but defeat is permanent.

Tom Panaggio

#30. One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

Mary Kay Ash

#31. The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

#32. It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.

Ramakrishna

#33. It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective ... When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.

Hilari Bell

#34. I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

Kerry Washington

#35. He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#36. Anyone who really believed what they were saying could get it said in a lot fewer words.

Jack Campbell

#37. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#38. Defeat is real. It is also temporary. We have to understand both. Faced for what it is, absorbed and met without self-deception, defeat can offer wisdom and motivation. Begin even though you know that you will suffer failure and defeat along the way.

Eric Greitens

#39. Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#40. I'd drink your blood if I could and hook you into every memory inside me, every heartbreak, frame of reference, temporary triumph, petty defeat, mystic moment of surrender.

Anne Rice