Quotes and Sayings about Losing & Defeat

A good player knows how to win the game, a good character knows how to lose it, while smiling.

In this world everything is governed by balance. There's what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose. And in this moment they think they have nothing to lose. And when you believe you've got nothing to lose, you're overconfident. We will be the ones that are going to show them just how much they have to lose.

The loser isn't the one who's falling down, it's the one who doesn't stand up.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

The only opponents who aren't coming up with excuses for being defeated by me are computers.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

But I will not lose, for even in defeat
There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens it up for me

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

A temporary defeat is nothing if it leads to ultimate victory!

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time... the losses are what define a man's faith.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

We always try to correct what we did wrong; you can always learn something when you lose.

The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.

Win or lose, I always learn something.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up!

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

I really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

Everything's a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.

The jaws of victory have many teeth!

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Disappoint someone - whatever. And disappoint the world. But never disappoint yourself!

Experience has taught me that wishful thinking only leads to disappointment.

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is the best.

Simba: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Not everything has to make sense. It's totally fine when it's fun.

Sometimes, a truce is the most important part of a war.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

The only time that we are allowed to look down upon others: when we are offering to help them up.

What goes up must come down.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.