Quotes About Defeat

Losing hurts, it always hurts, and it should hurt.

Not being able to end the last game of my college career with a win, it really hurts.

Whenever you lose, it hurts.

Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals.

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Nobody's immune from getting beat. If you're not aware of that, you really don't have a great perspective.

One win more, one defeat more. There are other important things: family, friendship, values.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Whoever takes me captive won't live long enough to enjoy it

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.

Le but d'une vie lucide est d'aboutir à une déconfiture qui servira de leçon à tous ses contemporains. Car on n'apprend jamais de la victoire, on n'apprend que de la défaite.

N"ayez pas peur du kamikaze. Ce qui l'intéresse dans le risque de mort, ce n'est pas le risque, c'est la mort. Ce qu'il aime dans la guerre, ce n'est pas "vaincre ou mourir" mais mourir et ne surtout pas vaincre. Sa grande affaire, ce n'est pas, comme dit Clausewitz, proportionner des efforts à la force de résistance de l'ennemi, le renverser, le réduire - mais mourir. (ch. 16 Debray, Kojève et le prix du sang)

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

Old Man, right (sighing): Death to the fascists!

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Wer kämpft, kann verlieren. Wer nicht kämpft, hat schon verloren.

All I get from your victory is losses.

In sum, victory and defeat both come at a price for ordinary people. The best thing for us is if there's not too much politicking.

La guerra che verrà non è la prima. Prima ci sono state altre guerre. Alla fine dell'ultima C'erano vincitori e vinti. Fra i vinti la povera gente Faceva la fame. Fra i vincitori Faceva la fame la povera gente egualmente.

If we could learn to look instead of gawking, We'd see the horror in the heart of farce, If only we could act instead of talking, We wouldn't always end up on our arse. This was the thing that nearly had us mastered; Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men! Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard, The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

Such battles as he carried on now were in a wider sphere, their sole object the complete political annihilation of the dumb and dastardly Democrats.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken