Defeat Quotes, Sayings about losing

If you win, you need not have to explain…If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
– Adolf Hitler

We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
– Japanese Proverb

If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
– Vince Lombardi

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.
– Adolf Hitler

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
– Napoleon Hill

Never confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.
– Jeffrey Fry

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
– Marilyn vos Savant

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
– Henry Ward Beecher

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
– Imran Khan

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
– Roger Crawford

You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.
– John Christopher

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
– Che Guevara

You cannot talk defeat and expect to have victory. Send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

Life is very similar to a boxing ring.
Defeat is not final when one falls down…
It is final when one refuses to get up and fight back!

When we pray we admit defeat.
– Anthony Burgess

Opportunity…it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.
– Napoleon Hill

Defeat is a state of mind, no one will be defeated unless the loss is accepted as a reality .

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
– John Steinbeck

It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone.
– A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
– Napoleon Bonaparte

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
– Ronald Reagan

I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.
– Jay Z

While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
– Maya Angelou

Don’t be defeated, rise up and do something for yourself.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
– Wendell Phillips

There is no defeat unless admitted.

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.
– Millard Fillmore