Defeat

Famous quotes containing the word defeat:

“Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.”
—Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944)

“Unkindness may do much,
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A self-denial, no less austere than the saint’s, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)