But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
John Abizaid

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
Gordon B. Hinckley

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
Pat Buchanan

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Edwin Markham

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
Bishop Robert South

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
John Boyd Orr

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.
Phil Ochs

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.
Ninon de L'Enclos

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

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
Francis Quarles