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
Gordon B. Hinckley 
Harry Pollitt 
William Morris 
Bill Bradley 
Jean-Paul Sartre 
Bill Nelson 
William F. Buckley, Jr. All Defeat Quotes
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
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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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Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy
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Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be - and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can't cut and run.
Al D'Amato
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napolean Hill
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Ashley Montague
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The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.
Mercy Otis Warren
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