The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Great, tell me when you’ve defeated Voldemort for me, will you?

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except. in American colleges.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind

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

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

I know no fighter can survive the loss if he feels sorry for himself when he’s defeated.

Reason cannot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.