Defeat Quotes

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. (“To Kill a Mockingbird”)

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

The only way you can keep someone in the gutter is to get down there with them.

Up a tree.

All washed up.

Victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it.