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Quotes About Defeat

Without acknowledging the potential of defeat, one could not adequately defy it.
~ John Walker
Others cowered beside their vehicles, literally losing
~ John Walker
Every victory enlarges the magnitude of our possible defeat.
~ John Williams
pag.36 You must remeber what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remeber that while tou're trying to decide what to do.
~ John Williams
You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.
~ John Williams
Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life.
~ John Williams
You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.
~ John Wooden
In the end, defeat, and the cold, must come. First to the system, then the galaxy, then the universe, and the rest will be silence. Not to admit that is a fools vanity.' She paused. ' Yet one grows flowers because they are lovely - not because one wishes them to live forever.
~ John Wyndham
All the old problems, the stale ones, both personal and general, had been solved by one mighty slash.
~ John Wyndham
Heath lost an argument with a porcupine in the castle gardens.
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
Before he became Amir, Abdur Rahman had been defeated by Shir Ali in Kabul. He took refuge in Samarkand where he spent ten years. Taking him for a country bumpkin, the Russians used to discuss all their political affairs before him, convinced that he did not understand them. But the future Amir had studied Russian secretly and learned much about Asiatic politics. Walking through the empty halls of Jahnama, I thought of him—bearded, shrewd, wearing the astrakhan kola,
~ Ella Maillart
Those who defer obedience till every shadow of uncertainty disappears and there remains no risk of failure or defeat, will never obey at all.
~ Ellen G. White
I'll tell you what: I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden to no human cocksucker.
~ Ellsworth
No se la iba a acabar, pero tendría que entender que así es la vida, que unas veces se pierde y otras se deja de ganar.
~ Élmer Mendoza
We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.
~ Ely Gulbertson
Complaining about your problems rather than devicing solutions to deal with them will only make you to live in a perpetual defeat/frustration.
~ Emeasoba George
When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
~ Emil Cioran
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist—a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist—only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
~ Emil Cioran
sudbina - rech tako draga pobedjenima
~ Emil Cioran
De cum se intereseaza cineva de cartile mele,stiu ca e "terminat",ca ceva s-a frant in el,ca nu va fi in stare sa se "descurce" in viata.Nu strang in jurul meu decat invinsi. Patronul Invinsilor.
~ Emil Cioran
Samo je jedna stvar važna: nau?iti biti gubitnik.
~ Emil Cioran
Zadarnic supunem universul È™i ni-l însuÈ™im, atâta vreme cât nu vom fi învins timpul vom r?mâne doar niÈ™te sclavi.
~ Emil Cioran
An existence constantly transfigured by failure.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Every vanquished desire affords us power.
~ Emil M. Cioran