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Quotes about Defeat

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 - 1592)

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of US (1858 - 1919)

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
- Wendell Phillips, US abolitionist (1811 - 1884)

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
- Oprah Winfrey, US actress & television talk show host (1954 - )

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
- Sallust, Roman historian & politician (86 BC - 34 BC)

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
- Sun-tzu, Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
- Quintilian, Roman rhetorician

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, US science fiction author

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
- Ralph W. Sockman