When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Quintilian

When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.
Ruud van Nistelrooy

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
Damon Albarn

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
Kelly Miller

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
Paul Brown

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
Christy Mathewson

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Napolean Hill

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
Pat Riley

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
Roger Kahn

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Richard M. Nixon

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
Michael Ignatieff