“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”— Karl Lagerfeld, glamourmagazine.co.uk
“When we fight, if we hold on to our dignity and honour, even if we lose we will never be defeated, because our soul is intact.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Defeat is also a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”— Bruce Lee, amazon.com
“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”— Jorge Luis Borges, www-ccs.cs.umass.edu
“If you are in a pit of stress or despair, don’t succumb to defeat. Don’t accept that difficult place as your fate.”— Tracie Miles, amazon.com
“Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.”— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, amazon.com
“Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I know you. You're the one wearing that smile, even though last night you barely slept. Your selfies tell a different story, the one you don't want others to know. Happiness on the surface but there's pain in your soul. I think the world of you. The way you stand upright, refusing to fall. You walk…”— R.H. Sin, instagram.com
“Knowing when to admit defeat is one of my better qualities.”— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Christopher Hayden, David Sutcliffe, imdb.com
“Knowing when to admit defeat is one of my better qualities.”— David Sutcliffe, Christopher Hayden, netflix.com
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“He didn't know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com
“He believed her because here in the shadowy light of the stronghold everything seemed possible. Between the two of them they owned the world and no enemy, Gary Fulcher, Wanda Kay Moore, Janice Avery, Jess's own fears and insufficiencies, nor any of the foes whom Leslie imagined attacking Terabithia,…”— Katherine Paterson, amazon.com