T. S. Eliot Quotes

‘Tis better to have fought and lost, Than not to have fought at all.

I was in the Army. I wasn't trained to lose.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

Victory lies in not getting defeated.

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.

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’ Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho

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

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

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

I have always believed that you win fights round by round.

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.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.

Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.