21 Movie Quotes about Defeat (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 11, 2025

Memorable quotes about defeat, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 We are all ready to win just as we are born knowing only life. It is defeat that you must learn to prepare for.

Bruce Lee as Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973)

2 Next to a battle lost, the saddest thing is a battle won.

Christopher Plummer as Duke Of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

3 Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat.

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

4 With you, it's different. I think you get sort of a neurotic pleasure out of losing all the time.

Peter Robbins as Charlie Brown in Charlie Brown's All Stars!

5 But perhaps this simple defeat of this little so-called champion will be a perfect example of how pathetically weak your society has become!

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV (1985)

6 Am I haunted by misfortune? Does disaster dog my footsteps? Me. With an unbroken record of defeat.

Jimmy Durante as Knobby Walsh in Palooka (1934)

7 So long, kid. I'm not sore. Every Napoleon has his Waterloo.

Jimmy Durante as Knobby Walsh in Palooka (1934)

8 Okay, homo, I hope you are ready to taste the agonizing, bitter humiliation of defeat. You ready?

Jason London as Randall "Pink" Floyd in Dazed and Confused (1993)

9 One man may be the difference between victory and defeat.

Pat Morita as The Emperor Of China in Mulan (1998)

10 I consider one of the greatest virtues to take defeat with dignity.

Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley in Champagne for Caesar