Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Defeat

Quotes about: Defeat

• The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Courage, Strong

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

• Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Health, Exercise, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.521

• It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Basketball, Defeat, Attainment

• To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Song, Should Have, Victory

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.7

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