Quotes About Defeat

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life.

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be conquered, victory or defeat. Anything less is to be forgotten to history.

When you win, the rules change, and you find you've lost

Which if not victory is yet revenge.

be killing sin or it will be killing you.

The only sin that we can defeat is a forgiven sin.

Sin's outcome is eternal misery. What infinite ugliness then must be the ugliness of sin. This is the constant subject of preaching, for this is what we must ever overcome. It is more serious than Satan and sickness and insanity. None of those can damn a soul. Only sin can damn. This we must defeat in preaching, or all is in vain. Flippancy in and around our preaching communicates to people that sin is not as serious as the Bible says it is.

There is no thought in the Bible that Satan had to be paid off to let sinners be saved. What happened to Satan when Christ died was not payment, but defeat.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

I remember him, already a defeated old man, getting up before dawn to face the unmusical reality of soiled bloody dressings.)

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.

Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move,This cannot take her.If of herself she will not love,Nothing can make her.The devil take her!

Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.

Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!

when competition is seen as essential to a good life, when winning against one's neighbors is put at the heart of society, business thrives. To win, others have to lose: the more losers, the better winning feels.

Brandon envisioned a world in which the loser of the Michigan–OSU game could find redemption. That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. You lose the game, you fume for 364 days until you have an opportunity to right the wrongs. This is not a carnival fun ride. It's college fucking football.