1. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.-Napoleon Hill
2. Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.-Robert South
3. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.-Josephus Daniels
4. Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.-Adolf Hitler
5. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.-George Edward
6. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.-F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. The art of victory is learned in defeat.-Simon Bolivar
8. You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.-Richard Nixon
9. It is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.-Abdul Kalam
10. Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.-Anais Nin
11. Defeat is only a word. Defeat was the beginning of a victory.-Launa Rissadia
12. An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.-Millard Fillmore
13. You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.-Maya Angelou
14. Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.-Joe Clark
15. It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.-Ben Robertson
16. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.-Ernest Hemingway
17. You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.-Joel Osteen
18. Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.-Bruce Lee
19. Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.-Edwin Markham
20. Defeat is in your mind. Resilience is in your soul.-Keri Murphy
21. If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.-Simone De Beauvoir
22. The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.-Bill Bradley
23. There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.-Michel de Montaigne
24. It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.-Imran Khan
25. Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.-Richard M. Nixon
26. Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.-Wendell Phillips
27. If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.-Zig Ziglar
28. There is no defeat except for those who give up.-Joseph B. Wirthlin
29. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.-Marilyn vos Savant
30. Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.-Jeffrey Fry