Quotes About Defeat

You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy. I

I looked over the despondency of the home crowd. Fools! Fools! I thought. Love it! Love the loss as well as the gain. Go home and dig it. Nobody was killed. We saw victory and defeat, and they were both wonderful.

every triumph is also a defeat, and the ecstasies of those who prevail are matched by the agonies of those who lose.

We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

The world eventually sends out a mean-ass Patrol Boy to slow your progress and show you who's boss. You reading this have undoubtedly met yours (or will); I met mine, and I'm sure he'll be back. He's got my address. He's a mean guy, a Bad Lieutenant, the sworn enemy of goofery, fuckery, pride, ambition, loud music, and all things nineteen.

Countries that are defeated by their enemies often rebuild. But the countries that are destroyed from within—that's really the end of the line.

In the event of defeat," he wrote in the February 1914 memorandum to Nicholas II, "social revolution in its most extreme form is inevitable." Durnovó specifically forecast that the gentry's land would be expropriated and that "Russia will be flung into hopeless anarchy, the issue of which cannot be foreseen.

Jesus—nailed to the cross—appears powerless and defeated (15: 29–30). As Mark so darkly paints it, the scene is a tragic paradox: Despite the seeming triumph of religious and political forces allied against him, Jesus is neither guilty nor a failure. The failure lies in humanity's collective inability to recognize the sufferer's inestimable value, to see in him God's hand at work.

FAR BETTER IT IS TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS, TO WIN GLORIOUS TRIUMPHS, EVEN THOUGH CHECKERED BY FAILURE, THAN TO TAKE RANK WITH THOSE POOR SPIRITS WHO NEITHER ENJOY NOR SUFFER TOO MUCH, BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN THE GRAY TWILIGHT THAT KNOWS NOT VICTORY NOR DEFEAT." —Theodore Roosevelt, in his speech "The Strenuous Life, A Speech before the Hamilton Club," Chicago, April 10, 1899

The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it, she ought to defeat the Alend Monarch's army, take care of Master Gilbur and the arch-Imager Vagel, and produce peace on earth. While composing great music with her free hand. Instead of doing all that, however, she concentrated with a pure white intensity that resembled terror on simply staying in the saddle

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

if you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. But if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Do you understand?" "I don't

as Thomas Pynchon wrote in Gravity's Rainbow, "It is not often that Death is told so clearly to fuck off.

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.

Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Love is not a victory march

Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish someday.

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.

You know me, I love lost causes.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.