"No fighter can survive if he feels sorry for himself when he's defeated."
- Muhammad Alimotivational , Muhammad Ali , athlete , competition , defeat , lost , sports , strong-positive-mindset
"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 Angeloumotivational , Maya Angelou , defeat , experience , failure , growth , lessons , regret , self-improvement , unstoppable
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end."
- Denis Waitleymotivational , Denis Waitley , defeat , difficulties , disappointment , failure , obstacles , teacher , this-too-shall-pass
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
- CS Lewismotivational , CS Lewis , achievement , defeat , disappointment , failure , mistakes , success
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchillmotivational , Winston Churchill , courage , defeat , disappointment , failure , moving-on , perseverance , progress , strength , this-too-shall-pass , unputdownable
"Biographies of great people taught me, that even eminent people fail but they keep getting up."
- Tony Robbinsmotivational , Tony Robbins , defeat , failure , mistakes , people , unputdownable
"Life knows no failure. Failure exists only for those who are always comparing themselves with others."
- Sadhguruinspiring , motivational , Sadhguru , confidence , defeat , failure , fearless , illusion , invincible , life , mistakes , reality , self-esteem , unputdownable , unstoppable
"There are a thousand lessons in defeat."
- Confuciusinspiring , motivational , Confucius , defeat , failure , learning , lessons , mistakes , unputdownable
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
- Leonardo da Vinciinspiring , motivational , Leonardo da Vinci , attitude , bad-times , calmness , defeat , difficulties , failure , hard-times , mentality , mind , obstacles , patience , problems
"If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost."
- Zig Ziglarinspiring , motivational , Zig Ziglar , defeat , failure , learning , lessons
"Failure is an event not a person."
- Zig Ziglarinspiring , Zig Ziglar , criticism , defeat , failure , perspective , self-esteem
"No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."
- Napoleon Hillinspiring , motivational , Napoleon Hill , defeat , failure , persistence , resilience
"The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again."
- John Henry Jowettmotivational , John Henry Jowett , decisions , defeat , failure , persistence , try-again