To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't believe in defeat.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.