Defeat Quotes

"It's going to be a battle, ... We probably do have enough votes in the House to defeat it."

"He told me, 'Don't you worry: They will not destroy me or break me. I shall defeat them all."

"We are still sick as parrots [over the Grimsby defeat], because it was the shortest way to Europe but tonight it was all right. I think we deserved the win."

"We think we can defeat the bill."

"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus"

"We turned around a big defeat at Leicester last week with a relatively new team, and that's good. I think they found the passion we've always had at Northampton."

"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat"

"I can't imagine anybody wanting to stand against him because it is quite likely they would face a crushing defeat."

"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose."

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."

"Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong."

"It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible."

"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory"

"Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat add victory."

"If someone tells him the truth, he looks upon that as poison. He cannot tell victory from defeat. This is the way of life in the world of the faithless cynic."

"We learn little from victory, much from defeat"

"The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of."

"The defeat of the combined French and Spanish fleets lifted the very real threat of an invasion of Britain and it was greeted by the nation with huge relief,"

"I'm kind of glad we had a game like this without having to suffer a defeat. But it's a wake-up call when these kids understand that it's not going to get any easier, it's going to get tougher."

"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."