Quotes About Defeat

It was a strategic victory as bloodless for the defeated as for the victor-and the less men slain on the other side, the more potential adherents and recruits for Caesar. Despite the substitution of manoeuvre for direct assaults upon his enemy the campaign had cost him only six weeks of his time.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated.

The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

As a player, when you get beaten, you can comfort yourself by saying you did reasonably well. As a manager, when you get beaten, you think it's all your fault, but 70,000 people and all those watching on television know it's your fault.

Goalkeeper is a very influential position, and that is becoming recognised now. If you think about it, any error that we make can be fatal for the team. It can lead to a goal and cause a defeat.

It's one thing to never accomplish anything. You start from the bottom, you remain at the bottom, and all you know is the bottom. When you start at the bottom and you get to the top, and you feel the success and the notoriety and the recognition from being the champion, and you go back to losing, that's a tough place to be in.

If I went out there and felt the best I ever felt and fought the best I've ever fought and lost, I would have to reconsider things and think differently. I would have a different outlook on my career.

By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer than 10,000 effectives. It was a disaster from which he would never recover.

After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover.

When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.

I always say all the time that's what the NBA is all about - getting to play against the best guys and opportunities to redeem yourself against teams that beat you.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

We've had to handle defeat many times, and you can't drawn any conclusions.

It's going to take more than one loss for me to hang up my gloves; that's for sure.

This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away.

I'm always disappointed when we lose, and it's happened quite a few times.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

The stat is the score. And when you don't win that score, nothing good happens.

There have been many boxing comebacks over the years, and sadly many of them do not have a happy ending.

You lose a game and you lose confidence and we get that back through hard work.

I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I hate losing, like everyone else.