When it comes to starting a business, there will be times when you feel like giving up. These quotes are meant to inspire and motivate you to keep going, despite the obstacles in your way.

The best defeated quotes

1. Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. — Martin Luther King

2. Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it. — Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar

3. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte

4. You might be surrounded in a room of utter darkness, but if you light only one match, all the darkness is defeated. — Michelle Ivezic

5. All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated. — Paulo Coelho

6. In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated. — Walker Percy

7. Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires. — Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

8. There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. — Tony Blair

9. Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday’s triumphant cause. — Phyllis McGinley

10. Look in his eyes. He has died a thousand times these last moments…You defeated him utterly the moment you saw fear in his eyes. All else is redundancy. — Nathan Long, Jane Carver of Waar

11. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win — Sun Tzu, The Art of War

12. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. — Sun Tzu

13. It’s fine to criticize somebody else’s crimes and misdeeds, but you don’t talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced. — Noam Chomsky

14. There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators — but we must not forget that the religion is still out there.

15. I’m falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies. — Rush Limbaugh

16. Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. — Martin Luther King Jr.

17. Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it. — Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar

18. Funny thing about the darkness… It can be defeated by the dimmest shimmer of light!So on your darkest days let even a little bit of light in — Summerlyn Guthrie

19. A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. — Sallust

20. The power of the gospel lies[…] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been defeated, that God’s new world has begun. — N. T. Wright

21. All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated. — Paulo Coelho

22. I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated. — Woodrow Wilson

23. Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. — Mordecai Richler

24. You’re not defeated when you lose a battle.You are defeated when you give up the struggle — Mouloud Benzadi

25. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte

26. Ronald Reagan defeated Soviet communism without firing a shot. — Rush Limbaugh

27. My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me. — Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

28. A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. — Richard M. Nixon

29. Look in his eyes. He has died a thousand times these last moments…You defeated him utterly the moment you saw fear in his eyes. All else is redundancy. — Nathan Long, Jane Carver of Waar

30. Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world’s sole superpower. — William Kristol

31. You’re not defeated when you lose a battle.You are defeated when you give up the struggle — Mouloud Benzadi

32. To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated! — Mehmet Murat ildan

33. Funny thing about the darkness… It can be defeated by the dimmest shimmer of light!So on your darkest days let even a little bit of light in — Summerlyn Guthrie

34. Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. — Steven Weinberg

35. Ronald Reagan defeated Soviet communism without firing a shot. — Rush Limbaugh

36. Communism has defeated itself everywhere except… in American colleges. — Paul Harvey

37. Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. — Mordecai Richler

38. We are never defeated unless we give up on God. — Ronald Reagan

39. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. — Sun Tzu

40. He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. — Sun Tzu, The Art of War

41. The State thrives on war–unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed–expands on it, glories in it. — Murray Rothbard

42. Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated. — Orrin Woodward

43. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte

44. Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it. — Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar

45. Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated. — William Carlos Williams

46. I survive all those battles, ‘ she growled, ‘and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock! — Rick Riordan

47. This is the unusual thing about nonviolence––nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory. — Martin Luther King

48. To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.–Jósef Piłsudski — Neal Ascherson, Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero

49. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win — Sun Tzu, The Art of War

50. You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit. — Paulo Coelho

Conclusion

No matter how much you may have been defeated, don’t forget that you still have the power to make something beautiful out of it. Everyone has the capacity to pick themselves up, start anew and create something great. Remember that you are never truly defeated until you give up.