Logo - Feel The Words

Defeat Quotes

Most Famous Defeat Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best defeat quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Defeat Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.

Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.

Quotes by William Colby

Every defeat hurts.

Quotes by Trent Alexander-Arnold

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Quotes by Tony Blair

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Quotes by Tom Landry

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

Quotes by Thelma Drake

The worst of all outcomes is that the Sandinistas will defeat the democratic fighters, and consequently they would have it all their way.

Quotes by Terry Sanford

The question the electorate asks is: 'What can you do for us? Are you just using us to defeat somebody because you have a personal grievance?'

Quotes by Sushma Swaraj

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

Quotes by Susan Glaspell

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

Quotes by Steven Brust

There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.

Quotes by Stephen Kinzer

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

Quotes by Steny Hoyer

I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Quotes by Stanley A. McChrystal

We've had to handle defeat many times, and you can't drawn any conclusions.

Quotes by Sergio Ramos

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

Quotes by Scott Ritter

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Quotes by Sam Snead

When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves.

Quotes by Rza

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Quotes by Russell Baker

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

Quotes by Russell Crowe

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

Quotes by Roy Cohn

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

Quotes by Roy Acuff

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Quotes by Robert South

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

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

Quotes by Rick Perry

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Quotes by Ralph Ellison

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Quotes by Quintilian

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Quotes by Queen Victoria

Only Boris Johnson will get the best Brexit deal for Britain, defeat Jeremy Corbyn's divisive shambles of an opposition, and govern the United Kingdom in the national interest.

Quotes by Priti Patel

The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.

Quotes by Peter Pace

A real possibility exists that we will be forced to confront, contain, and ultimately defeat radicalism and al-Qaeda alone, or at least with far fewer allies in the region than we had before.

Quotes by Pete Hoekstra

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

Quotes by Paul Wolfowitz

The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role to play in guiding a market economy. I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas.

Quotes by Paul Samuelson

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Quotes by Paul J. Meyer

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Quotes by Paul Brown

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

Quotes by Paul Cellucci

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

Quotes by Pat Buchanan

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Quotes by Oskar Schindler

To go back means defeat.

Quotes by Oliver Tambo

The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Quotes by Oliver Tambo

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Quotes by Nick Clooney

We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

Quotes by Nick Clooney

Our armed forces have given many sacrifices to defeat terrorists and root out their hideouts. This fight will continue until all terrorists are defeated.

Quotes by Nawaz Sharif

Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.

Quotes by Naftali Bennett

When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.

Quotes by Michele Bachmann

You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists.

Quotes by Michael T. Flynn

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

Quotes by Michael Mullen

I would argue it should be a policy to defeat ISIS where they are, where they exist and prevent them from coming into the United States.

Quotes by Michael McCaul

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

Quotes by Michael McCaul

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

Quotes by Michael Medved

I don't believe in defeat.

Quotes by Michael Cimino

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren

Perhaps the biggest boost to the LePenization of French politics came from Nicolas Sarkozy. As president of France between 2007 and 2012, he actively courted FN voters and helped dismantle the 'Republican pact,' under which the two main parties had pledged to work together to defeat the FN at a national and local level.

Quotes by Mehdi Hasan

The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.

Quotes by Mehdi Hasan

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Quotes by Mary Renault

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.

Quotes by Martin Jacques

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam.

Quotes by Martin Jacques

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

Quotes by Martha Gellhorn

We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

Quotes by Marsha Blackburn

I don't think any professional accepts defeat.

Quotes by Mariano Rivera

I guess we'd better start getting used to the consequences and permit the American liberals to squeak and squeal us to ultimate defeat.

Quotes by Marcus Luttrell

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Quotes by Mao Zedong

I'm not going to allow my trials to defeat me, I'm going to let them build me up and learn from them and take as much wisdom as I can from each trial.

Quotes by Maddie Marlow

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

Quotes by Lydia M. Child

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

Quotes by Lauren Mayberry

Any team can fall down but it's about how they react to defeat that matters.

Quotes by Kolo Toure

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Quotes by Kin Hubbard

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

Quotes by Kim Il-sung

Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world.

Quotes by Kenny Marchant

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

Quotes by Kelly Miller

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

Quotes by Karl Liebknecht

I've no doubt about the attitude of the players. Everything moves quickly in football; we coaches move on quickly from victory and defeat.

Quotes by Julen Lopetegui

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Quotes by Josephus Daniels

We win, lose, but learn in the defeat.

Quotes by Jose Aldo

I am deeply concerned for the safety of our people brought by a lack of a comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIL.

Quotes by Joni Ernst

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

Quotes by Jonathan Carroll

To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.

Quotes by John R. Allen

We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.

Quotes by John R. Allen

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Quotes by John Boyd Orr

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

Quotes by Joe Henderson

In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre of our plan, I will remain an outspoken advocate for that cause.

Quotes by Jo Cox

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.

Quotes by Jared Diamond

Each FBI employee understands that to defeat the key threats facing our nation, we must constantly strive to be more efficient and more effective. Just as our adversaries continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI.

Quotes by James Comey

It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.

Quotes by Jahangir Khan

I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.

Quotes by Jack Keane

In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.

Quotes by Jack Keane

Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.

Quotes by Jack Keane

It's hard to deal with defeat.

Quotes by Jack Grealish

I went to Eton, that's a slightly controversial issue, but it's an interesting subject to try and come across as likable and self-aware and possibly even defeat a couple of stereotypes.

Quotes by Ivo Graham

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

Quotes by Horatio Nelson

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

Quotes by Herman Gorter

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

Quotes by Henry Waxman

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Quotes by Henry Miller

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

Quotes by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Guys, we are trying to share Unique Defeat Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.