Quotes about Defeat

I mean, nobody wants to lose. And nobody wants to be playing at the end of the year when you don't have a chance to make the playoffs.

I love competing. I mean, if you ask anybody around me, my coaches, they know I love competing. I hate losing.

Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand.

Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.

Savor powerlessness, after power, in every phase that matches it precisely; replace every old triumph with the new defeat; strengthen yourself on your weakness; win yourself back when so very lost.

The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?

Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.

The ego hates losing — even to God.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.