Quotes About Defeat

Sometimes you do your very best and you lose anyway.

Because, he said in an even voice, you're used to winning, so you don't even think about how, every time there's a game, both sides get that 'rah, rah, team' speech from their coaches both sides hear 'you're the best!' 'You've got to win!' 'You're the greatest!' But half of the people playing that game are going to walk away losers. Half!

Do not enter with defeat in your heart for that is the first victory of evil.

H]umilié par la vie, qui l'un après l'autre avait soufflé ses rêves, [Don Ruggero] mettait la démence entre sa défaite et lui.

Un triunfo sólo sienta a los muertos. En vida, siempre hay alguien pronto a reprocharnos nuestras debilidades, como antaño reprochaban a César su calvicie y sus amores. Pero un muerto tiene derecho a esa especie de inauguración funeraria, a esas pocas horas de pompa ruidosa antes de los siglos y los milenios de olvido. La fortuna de un muerto está al abrigo de los reveses; hasta sus derrotas adquieren un esplendor de victoria.

Niettemin ben ik op de leeftijd gekomen waarop het leven voor ieder mens een aanvaarde nederlaag is.

I have nevertheless reached the age where life, for every man, is accepted defeat.

Pero de todos modos he llegado a la edad en que la vida, para cualquier hombre, es una derrota aceptada

nineteenth-century feminism was defeated by men's adamant refusal to take responsibility for maintaining themselves and their children;

Was there no limit to the suffering of human beings? The world was infested with these enclaves of savagery that awaited him in Putumayo. How many? Hundreds, thousands, millions? Could the hydra be defeated? Its head was cut off in one place and reappeared in another, bloodier and more horrifying.

To understand that you have blown it, that you can never fix it is one of the worst feelings ever.

It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.

The Latin poet wrote 'Amor vincit omnia,' or 'Love conquers all.' He did not write, 'Love frees all' or 'liberates' all, and therein lies the first degree of our flagrant misunderstanding. Conquer: to defeat, subjugate, massacre, cream, make mincemeat out of. Surely

History is not easy," Hue told me. "People are still confused why a huge force like the United States was defeated. But if you don't know your enemy, you will lose every time.

The absolute worst place to begin constructing an identity is you, which is precisely where most counseling begins. The absolute best place to begin constructing an identity is Jesus Christ, which is precisely where Scripture begins. Knowing Jesus and being saved by him in faith is the key to your identity and the defeat of your idolatry. It's not about you. It's all about Jesus.

You have to be willing to lose to win, and you're going to lose a lot"—a lot of votes, a lot of states. "No one gets elected president without being humiliated. How you deal with the humiliation is the key.

As I understand it, miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them. They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.

He was able to find the intensity and beauty that he wanted, in the plung itself. Physical forces in a complicated coalition of gravity, acceleration, and temperature were powerful and intense enough to satisfy him. It made sense. Nothing was as comforting as the enduring purity of elemental forces, and returning to them could not mean defeat. But he never thought that he would die in a bark suit, strapped to a shock pancake, next to an incompetent midget.

I think it would be vain to imagine that we could be favored without effort. As I understand it, miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them. They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.

The world goes this way and that. Ideas are in fashion or not, and those who should prevail are often defeated. But it doesn't matter. The virtues remain uncorrupted and uncorruptible. They are rewards in themselves, the bulwarks with which we can protect our vision of beauty, and the strengths by which we may stand, unperturbed, in the storm that comes when seeking God.

to defeat pain he had to separate it from time, its most useful ally.

Miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them. They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.

When the war finally ended, and Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee sat down to talk, Lee said that his men had not eaten in two days and asked Grant for food. According to some observers, when the Union supply wagons were pulled into sight, the defeated soldiers of the famished Army of Northern Virginia let out a cheer.

When we pray we admit defeat.