(642 quotes found)
“It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.”
Ben Stein
“The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis”
Erich Fromm
“Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.”
Alfred Adler
“Defeat - For every winner there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them.”
Larry Kersten
“Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.”
Ninon de Lenclos
“In war, all suffer defeat, even the victors.”
Proverb
“I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.”
Joshua Logan
“Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.”
Og Mandino
“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat”
Jean-Paul Sartre
