Defeats Quotes

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali

Life, Thought, Losing

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

May, Defeated, Encounter

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Mind, Win

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato

Best, Victory, Another

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes

History, Before, Become

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino

Success, After, Victory

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee

Wisdom, Expect, Call

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
Bjorn Borg

Great, Greatest, Fight

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Henry Miller

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel de Montaigne

Triumphant, Victories

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
Richard M. Nixon

Win, Suffer, Risks

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Success, Long, Through

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
Bertolt Brecht

Top, Bottom, Victories

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
Walter Kaufmann

Faith, Fashion, Try

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
Jonathan Sacks

Faith, Fear, Live

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.
Henning Mankell

Dreams, Fact, Listen

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
John Sayles

True, America, Dead

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
Moshe Sharett

Political, May, Happen

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson

Home, Business, Daily

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Henry Steele Commager

Society, End, Real

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
Robert Trout

Today, Learn, Read

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry Bolingbroke

End, Pride, Contempt

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.
John Byrne

Life, Why, Anybody

I think television defeats ventriloquism.
Paul Winchell

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Henry Steele Commager

Society, End, Real

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.
Jim Cole

Writing, Mean, Through

Some defeats are only installments to victory.
Jacob Riis

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