Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Far better is it 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 a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Defeat is a wonderful experience if it motivates you to never forget you're only as good as your last performance.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

It took LGBT activists 15 years to defeat section 28, but this is not a movement that's afraid of the long struggle. They know all progress is hard-fought, that discrimination against any individual anywhere is discrimination against all, and that the campaign for true, global equality must therefore be won one issue, case and country at a time.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Education is the key. If you are educated, nothing can defeat you.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

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

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

There are people who try to judge. I'm cool with that. I don't care what nobody say - the only thing that can defeat hate is love.

Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.