Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

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.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

Never give up, because at the end of it all we all trying to win.

I learned that deep within myself, if I fight to the end, I can always find a way to win.

Sometimes you're going to win close fights, and that's the way it is.

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.

I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated

There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to transform a defeat into something else, something new, something strong. All the good stories, all the people we remember are the ones who do this, who make victories out of their failures. Because the victories teach nothing. The victories are not useful. They are often dangerous.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.

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

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!