Temporary Defeat Quotes:

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Life, Men, Temporary Defeat

If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken by temporary defeats, then you have reached the goal achieved by the most fortunate. Not everyone reaches this mental state; in fact, many people do not even believe it is possible. Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the inner-harmony we desire. This type of awareness is not an accident, it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.

- Bob Proctor

source: FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 07, 2012

topic: Believe, Light, Temporary Defeat

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

- Napoleon Hill

source: Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.91, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

topic: Temporary Defeat, Remember, Failing

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.

- Napoleon Hill

source: Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.125, Penguin

topic: Temporary Defeat, Differences, Dormant

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.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Men, Self, Temporary Defeat

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Success, Smart, Journey To Success, Starting All Over

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

- George Edward Woodberry

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Success Failure, Success Is Not Measured

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

- Marilyn vos Savant

source: "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Journey To Success, Inspirational Determination

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Dream, Believe In Your Dreams

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Strength, Success, Yoga, Work Effort, Continuous Effort

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings, Lucky Breaks, Power Of Ideas

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

- Bernard Williams

topic: Hope, Night, Sunrise, Sunrise And Sunset, Instant Replay

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Change, Fear Of Success, Temporary Defeat

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Inspirational Dream, Source Of Inspiration

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Causes, Common, Temporary Defeat, Think Rich Grow Rich

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.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Art, Path, Defeat, Sith, Temporary Defeat

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Overcoming Failure, Perseverence

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Business, Opportunity, Best Opportunity, Great Opportunity

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Persistence, Men, Creating, Marketing And Sales, Failure In Life

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Philosophy, Infinite Intelligence, Lucky Breaks

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

- Nicolas Malebranche

topic: Motivational, Art, Eye, Temporary Defeat

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.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Opportunity, Doors, Slipping, Sly, Back Doors

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.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Business, Accomplishment, Sense Of Accomplishment, Lucky Breaks

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

- Wallis Simpson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Uplifting, Gallant, Critical Spirit

From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms of temporary defeat. This would seem to justify the conclusion that Infinite Intelligence has a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Fashion, Opportunity, Men, Infinite Intelligence, Temporary Defeat

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Life, Break Up, Strength In Adversity, Adversity And Character

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.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspiration, Men, Arriving, Overlooking, Temporary Defeat

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Tree, Too Late, May, Temporary Defeat

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Business, Defeat, Temporary, Temporary Defeat

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Past, Leader, Records, Outwitting, Temporary Defeat

At this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary defeat ; be cheerful and optimistic. Above all, never lose your faith in the destiny of India. There is no power on earth which can keep India in bondage. India will be free and, that too, soon. JAl-HIND !

- Subhas Chandra Bose

topic: Optimistic, Army, Destiny, Juncture, Disheartened

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Differences, Defeat, Temporary, Temporary Defeat

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.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Gratitude, Blessing, Lessons, Temporary Defeat, Blessings In Disguise

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.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Dream, Believe, Mind, Temporary Defeat

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Leadership, Past, Men, Temporary Defeat