21 Movie Quotes about Defeat (+ Sound Clips)

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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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!

Quote from 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?

Quote from 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