Temporary Defeat quotes
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success."
"To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth."
"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth."
"Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats."
"There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat."
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"We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving."
"Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving"
"Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity."
"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination."
"You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience."
"Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats"
"Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness."
"The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat."
"Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure."
"Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat."
