Turning Defeat into Victory Quotes

You have to lose to win a silver medal, so that's always the tough thing to wrap your head around.

Everything on this earth can be made into something better. Every defeat may be made the foundation of a future victory. Every lost war may be the cause of a later resurgence. Every visitation of distress can give a new impetus to human energy. And out of every oppression those forces can develop which bring about a new rebirth.

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

I had to get beat to understand how to win.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Making something of loss is, on some level, satisfying.

There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

Every challenge has the opportunity to convert into a winning proposition.

What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to transform a defeat into something else, something new, something strong. All the good stories, all the people we remember are the ones who do this, who make victories out of their failures. Because the victories teach nothing. The victories are not useful. They are often dangerous.

Sometimes you win by losing.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

I feel like the worst has happened to me, so what better person to skate to 'Madame Butterfly' than me?

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.