Defeat Quotes

“In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat.”
― Salman Rushdie, Victory City

“If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery

“Jake tried to pull away from the clutching hand and went sprawling on the Tick-Tock Man's throne. His eye fell on a pocket which had been sewn into the right-hand arm-rest. Jutting from the elasticized top was the cracked pearl handle of a revolver.
"Oh, cully, how you'll suffer!" the Tick-Tock Man whispered ecstatically. The O of surprise had been replaced by a wide, trembling grin. "Oh how you'll suffer! And how happy I'll be to...WHAT--?"
The grin slackened and the surprised O began to reappear as Jake pointed the cheesy nickel-plated revolver at him and thumbed back the hammer. The grip on Jake's ankle tightened until it seemed to him that the bones there must snap.
"You DASN'T!" Tick-Tock said in a screamy whisper.
"Yes I DO," Jake said grimly, and pulled the trigger of the Tick-Tock Man's runout gun. There was a flat crack, much less dramatic than the Schmeisser's Teutonic roar. A small black hole appeared high up on the right side of Tick-Tock's forehead. The Tick-Tock Man went on staring up at Jake, disbelief in his remaining eye.
Jake tried to make himself shoot him again and couldn't do it.
Suddenly a flap of the Tick-Tock Man's scalp peeled away like old wallpaper and dropped on his right cheek. Roland would have known what this meant; Jake, however, was now almost beyond coherent thought. A dark, panicky horror was spinning across his mind like a tornado funnel. He cringed back in the big chair as the hand on his ankle fell away and the Tick-Tock Man collapsed forward on his face.
The door. He had to open the door and let the gunslinger in.
Focusing on that and nothing but, Jake let the pearl-handled revolver clatter to the iron grating...”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“There is no defeat in the cross. Only triumph is to be found there.”
― Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

“When people start playing with your feelings, accept your defeat and leave the field for them.”
― Shakil Kamboh

“If we have not won the battle inside of us, we will only have the illusion of victory in the battles outside of us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In order to gain possession of ourselves, we have to have some confidence, some hope of victory. And in order to keep that hope alive we must usually have some taste of victory. We must know what victory is and like it better than defeat.”
― Thomas Merton

“He is emotionally laid out in defeat, on his shield, to be laid out at her feet.”
― Locke Wood, Sunflowers & Scorched Earth: The History of American Vigilante Expression and The Found Works of B.L. Ashburn.

“Hold this thought: Right when you are most defeated–suicidal, perhaps–exhausted, positive of perpetual failure: this is when the epiphany is likely to arrive. One needs to be beaten down to think, and to think so as to escape. To escape death or boredom or the second act that simply will not do as you wish. Or the marriage that is stalled. Whatever is bearing down on you is a great teacher. Calm down and listen and crawl from beneath it a better person.”
― Harold Pinter

“যখন পরাজয় আসে তখন এটাকে একটা সতর্কতা হিসেবে গ্রহণ করুন যে আপনার পরিকল্পনা নিখুঁত ছিল না। পুনরায় নতুন পরিকল্পনা তৈরি করুন এবং আরও একবার আপনার কাঙ্ক্ষিত লক্ষ্যের দিকে পাল ঠিক করুন। - পৃষ্ঠা ১২৯”
― Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

“You face failure, not the moment you are defeated, but the moment you give up fighting.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is a lot better than the king ruling without it.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but t is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“A rant is the attempt to overcome an opposing position through anger because the individual hasn’t been able to defeat it through fact. Therefore, to engage in a rant is to admit defeat.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Path is the defiance of defeat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“The USA war in Afghanistan taught us that really poor Afghans can defeat the USA military.”
― Steven Magee

“Broken, but not defeated.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“日本人がいるかぎり、日本は亡ぶはずはない。”
― Naoki Hyakuta（百田尚樹）

“You tend to forget the good things when caught in an emotional raincloud of defeat anyway. That's why all athletes need a regular reality check, giving them a sense of balance between sports and life. They need to be told again that life is for living and sports are for playing. One you do the whole time you're here on the planet and the other you only do for a few short years. There's a big difference between the two, though the boundary lines are not marked with the same white paint found on the field. Perspective in sports is tantamount to longevity and success. Effectively dealing with tough losses demands that an athlete re-align himself often.”
― Jeff Kinley

“You can never defeat an enemy in the real world that you cannot defeat in your mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I don’t settle. Or more accurately, I can’t. To settle is to abandon great things to the death of smaller things. It is to desert what could have been for what never should have been. To settle is to bargain away the wildly rich abilities of our humanity in a ruinous trade-off for a lackluster existence. Settling is to declare an indefensible surrender to the evils of mediocrity at the expense of God’s resplendent and wholly viable vision for this existence of ours. No, I don’t settle because I can’t. And the fact is, neither can you. Therefore, I would suggest that you begin settling your life squarely on the reality that settling is far too unsettling to settle for.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There’s a victory that looks like defeat.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Лежить твоя зглузована Вкраїна,
схрестивши руки всіх своїх шляхів.
І що тепер? Що вдіять, що почати?
Ні булави, ні війська, ні почати.

Моя вина. Мій гріх перед людьми.
Усе ж було за нас.
Чому ж програли ми?!”
― Ліна Костенко, Берестечко

“We must define what winning is before we declare that we have done so.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Defeat or be defeated; it is the right solution.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Save your twisted words, my lord. There are no politicians here. The Sith will never regain control of the Republic. It’s over. You’ve lost.” Mace leveled his blade. “You lost for the same reason the Sith always lose: defeated by your own fear.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Revenge of the Sith[SW REVENGE OF THE SITH M/TV][Mass Market Paperback]

“Those of us who bore prominent parts in the struggle should recognize its failure. And should submit to the responsibilities of that failure, as belonging to us all in proportion to our positions. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to Henry B. Dawson, March 27, 1876.”
― Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

“We have no enemies outside. As spiritual seekers, we have to fight against our own mind, which is what defeats us over and over again, and we have to conquer it.”
― Shri Hit Premanand Govind Sharan Ji Maharaj

“Evil is the absence of good, not the defeat of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She felt deflowered by life, but she refused to feel dethroned.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Guru In The Glass: A Mysterious Encounter While Dying To Live The Unlived Life