- Defeat 1
- Defeat 2
- Defeat 3
- A defeated wrestler is not tired of wrestling. ~ Turkish Proverb
- A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ~ Ernest Hemingway
- A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself. ~ Jan Christian Smuts
- An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.~ Arabian Proverb
- Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant
- Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- Coincidence defeats a well-laid plan.~ Filipino Proverb
- Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.~ George E. Woodberry
- Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ~ Josephus Daniels
- I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.~ Tom Landry
- I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. ~ Lou Holtz
- It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.~ Henry Ward Beecher
- Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. ~ Sam Snead
- The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.~ Winston Churchill
- There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.~ Traditional Proverb
- We learn little from victory, but a great deal from defeat.~ Japanese Proverb
- We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. ~ Maya Angelou
- Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? ~ Virgil
- You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.~ Paul Brown

Defeat 1


