Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.
It is defeat which educates us.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.
The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.
It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.
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