Quotes About Defeat

We can defeat Satan much more quickly by praising God than by worrying.

A person who has their faith firmly planted in God cannot be defeated.

When we keep our eyes on our problems, we feel defeated and discouraged (see Numbers 13:31–32), but when we realize God is bigger than our problems, we can experience victory.

I fought the raw; the raw won.

Why is it," Royce murmured, gazing into her intoxicating eyes, "that every time you surrender willingly, like this, you make me feel like a king who has conquered. Yet when I conquer you against your will, you make me feel like a defeated beggar?

Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?

every time you surrender willingly, like this, you make me feel like a king who has conquered. Yet when I conquer you against your will, you make me feel like a defeated beggar?

Tum gairo se toh jeet jaaoge par apno se haar jaaoge

If you can't win, don't join them; learn how to lose.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest that we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.

Por ejemplo, el valor de la perseverancia requiere un límite para que no se convierta en fanatismo: "aprender a perder".

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

The 1962 Mets went 40-120, losing more games than any ball club in the twentieth century and finishing 60½ games out of first place.

The 1962 Mets went 40-120, losing more games than any ball club in the twentieth century and finishing 60½ games out of first place. This is not easy to do.

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

Life will not approve of my escape.

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

The thought of accepting the large sure loss is too painful, and the hope of complete relief too enticing, to make the sensible decision that it is time to cut one's losses. This is where businesses that are losing ground to a superior technology waste their remaining assets in futile attempts to catch up. Because defeat is so difficult to accept, the losing side in wars often fights long past the point at which the victory of the other side is certain, and only a matter of time.

Sometimes it is better to give an opponent a small victory then suffer a devastating defeat yourself. Gabriel Allon

I ain't shit! I ain't shit! shouts your brain, and this place proves the point.