Quotes About Defeat

Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

One more such victory and we are undone.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

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.

It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

Failure has no friends.

Success isnt permanent & failure isnt fatal.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.

Success through the eyes of one once defeated, is true VICTORY.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

Success has made failures of many men.

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.