Quotes About Defeat

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

Winning and losing are feelings; something in us knows if we have won or lost.

If you can't accept losing you can't win.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in life placidly, knowing that autumn and winter come after summer.

The magic, grace, growth and wonder of life is that wisdom follows a fall and defeat not from a win.

Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.

Change your perspective. Enjoy every failure as a success and every win as a loss.

Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.

A man can be knocked down a thousand times and can still get back up, but when he puts himself down he has defeated himself more than a million others could have done.

Never feel intimidated by defeat nor death, but rather intimidate life with your dreams.

If you do not chase success, you will be overtaken by failure.

Of course we'll win. And even if we were to lose, we'd win at losing.

With the ambitions, to seize the opportunity to win is your big loss.

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

Today u are laughing on my failure, Tomorrow i'll laugh on your success

They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.

Every user needs a loser, every winner is an intrusion.

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.