Quotes About Defeat

I love competing. I am so competitive. I definitely need to win because I hate losing. I am the type who if I know I will lose I won't compete.

I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

Piper talked forcefully about how the greatest strength of true Christianity is that it gives people the courage to endure defeat and even suffering without bitterness and that this is the way that the faith will advance, not through vanquishing enemies.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

he sagged like a rhino who'd lost out to the alpha male.

Besides, it wasn't our generation who was defeated when the dead rose. I still believe there's a future, and I intend to be there to see it.

If I am defeated tomorrow, I want to die as I have lived—a shepherd boy, with the sun on my forehead and the breeze in my hair. But if I overcome, everyone must know that the One God, and not Aidan Errolson, is the Champion of Corenwald. Neither arms nor armor can deliver Corenwald—only the arm of the One God.

Faith is the defeat of probability by the power of possibility.

Even betting against myself, I could always find a way to lose.

The story that the church has been telling for two thousand years is an outrageous tale about a man who was executed by the state but rose up from the dead. The crux of the story isn't that Jesus figured out the right answer to all the questions facing Israel in his day. What makes all the difference is that Jesus defeated the ultimate enemy and got up from the dead.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.

He who conquers is not the victor unless the loser considers himself beaten (qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatebur).

Qué implica esto? Dos notas muy nítidas: baja tolerancia a las frustraciones, es decir, ser un mal perdedor, y tendencia a refugiarse en un mundo fantástico que le aleja de la realidad.

en la lucha por el poder y el dinero sólo juegan limpios los perdedores.

bien sabemos tú y yo que en la lucha por el poder y el dinero sólo juegan limpios los perdedores.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

According to Ramses's inscriptions, no country was able to oppose this invading mass of humanity. Resistance was futile. The great powers of the day—the Hittites, the Mycenaeans, the Canaanites, the Cypriots, and others—fell one by one. Some

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

I wonder if Napoleon or even Robt. Lee were our commander this evening would they pursue a defeated army in this cautious, courteous way?

In one conversation that September in Geneva, Visser 't Hooft asked Bonhoeffer what he prayed for. "If you want to know the truth," Bonhoeffer replied, "I pray for the defeat of my nation. For I believe that is the only way to pay for all the suffering which my country has caused in the world.