Quotes about Defeat
When failure knocks on your door, ignore it.When defeat bangs on your door, lock it.When success knocks on your door, answer it.When greatness knocks on your door, seize it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably.To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.
— John Bunyan
A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.
— John Bunyan
Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.
— John Bunyan
Death, thou shalt die.
— John Donne
I am asking all Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, to join us in our campaign to defeat the corrupt establishment and give our government back to the people. It's going to happen.
— Donald Trump
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
— Napoleon Hill
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
— Samuel Johnson
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
— Henry Rollins
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success the tempter stood, nor had what to reply, discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
— John Milton
Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
— Og Mandino