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
Carl Sandburg 
Kim Il Sung 
Ben Stein 
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The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
Kim Il Sung 
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
Joseph Epstein
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I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Tom Landry
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
Martha Gellhorn
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