(642 quotes found)
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
Maya Angelou
“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.”
Louis L'Amour
“Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.”
William Arthur Ward
“In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.”
Robert Collier
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
Denis Waitley
“In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity”
Winston Churchill
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
George E. Woodberry
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything.”
George Lois
“How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.”
Franco Harris
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
