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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There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.
Rio Ferdinand 
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Pat Riley
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike
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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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Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.
Harry Reid
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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