Quotes About Defeat

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

The color of defeat chokes her pupils, even though her nod and smile and uncomfortable sitting motion on the couch indicate that she is not finished yet. She will carry on, like all of us. Smile stubborn. Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

Le gustaban los corrillos apretados y lo desconocido. La agridulce sensación de la incertidumbre: Ganar o perder.

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words.

Mind you true tragedy, supreme tragedy are not the worst in life, far from it: the squalid morass of unattempting impotence is the stifling of the soul and hope of man.

Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

They have acted in the faith that right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

And it was right for those youngsters to know that in a nation like France, no defeat was ever final, no fate was ever foreordained, that even amid the ruins and corpses of defeat, rebirth and recovery and renewal could always come.

real courage is belief in yourself. To face and defeat your fear, or be defeated by it.

Well, there was one thing which very soon struck me, and that was that the soldiers used always to lose and the civilians to win. Mind, I don't say there was anything unfair, but so it was.

Do you tell me that we have to sit down underthis? Do you say that no one can ever get level withthis king-devil?" "No, I don't say that," said Holmes, and his eyes seemed to be looking far into the future. "I don't say that he can't be beat. But you must giveme time—you must give me time!

I've often observed that men and women who were young children during these years [of defeat in war] have a certain seriousness about them; there was too little laughter in their childhoods.

Eu nunca procuro derrotar o homem que estou a combater - explicou ele - procuro derrotar a confiança que ele tem em si próprio. Uma mente perturbada pela dúvida não se pode concentrar no curso em direcção a vitória. Dois homens são iguais, verdadeiramente iguais, só quando têm ambos uma autoconfiança igual

success. "I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting," he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals—true equals—only when they both have equal confidence

Nunca procuro derrotar o homem a quem estou combatendo... Procuro derrotar sua confiança, Uma mente perturbada pela pela dúvida não pode se concentrar no curso da vitória. Dois homens são iguais - de verdade - só quando ambos têm igual confiança.

Nunca procuro derrotar o homem a quem estou combatendo... Procuro derrotar sua confiança. Uma mente perturbada pela dúvida não pode se concentrar no curso da vitória. Dois homens são iguais - de verdade - só quando ambos têm igual confiança.

He who has lost all hope has also lost all fear;

To be happy one must be as ignorant as youth, youth thinks that willing and striving are joys - it does not yet discover the unending character of desire and the fruitless of fulfillment, It does not yet see the inevitableness of defeat

The life of a man is a struggle for existence with the certainty of defeat.

All they have to do is to turn around and shoot. All the people have to do is to lie down and die.

And in a war that you cannot win, you don't want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don't want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can't, someone who understands that the damage is greatest if all you do is battle to the bitter end.