Defeat Quotes

Somewhere in the world there is a 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 and victory.

I’m really happy, and beating Marc [Marquez] at the very last chicane gives me an extra boost.

Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.

There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.

Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn’t see.