Quotes about Defeat
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
— GK Chesterton
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.
— Napoleon Hill
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.
— Madeleine L'Engle
How are the mighty fallen!
— Anonymous
We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.
— Watchman Nee
Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.
— Paulo Coelho
Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King:
— John Milton
There is not a day in our lives in which sin does not either defeat us or is defeated, prevails over us or is prevailed over, and it will be like this as long as we live in this world.
— John Owen
Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.
— Glenn Beck
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
— Gordon Hinckley
Joy turns tears into laughter.Hope turns mourning into gladness.Wisdom turns tragedy into fortune.Faith turns defeat into triumph.Love turns enmity into friendship.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.
— CS Lewis