The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
A victory which is not honourable is nothing but a defeat!
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
I think television defeats ventriloquism.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
You are the best only till someone defeats you.
We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Some defeats are only installments to victory.
