Top Defeat Quotes
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
Stevie Wonder
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
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The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.
Roy Acuff 
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Queen Victoria
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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
Henry Miller
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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
Maxwell Maltz
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I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
Darrell Royal
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The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
Joe Henderson
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Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
Jared Diamond
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