Quotes About Defeat

Totalitarianism of a certain kind, as imagined by Aldous Huxley or George Orwell, is therefore impossible. What the totalitarian project will always produce will be a kind of rigidity and inefficiency which may contribute in the long run to its defeat. We need to remember however the voices from Auschwitz and Gulag Archipelago which tell us just how long that long run is.

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

It was that same old spiralling argument, and again he didn't have the energy to fight his corner. 'When you put it like that, I guess it doesn't sound too ridiculous.

When I lose, I take it very personally.

It is quite difficult at PSG because when you lose a game there is a lot of pessimism.

I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.

The worst loss in my career - the 2002 World Championship final against Peter Ebdon.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.

Sometimes you get the pinball machine and sometimes the pinball machine gets you.

Once I got beat by Mayweather I felt so ashamed. I cancelled all my functions, all my appearances, I didn't want to walk down the street. I was too embarrassed to even go and have a pint with my mates.

If you want to be the champ, you've got to beat the champ.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

For Germany, the war was like an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary. The loss of the war was as certain as the loss of an end game under these conditions.

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.

After the Manchu government had carried on wars with foreign nations and had been defeated, China was forced to sign many unequal treaties. Foreign nations are still using these treaties to bind China, and as a result, China fails at whatever she attempts.

MMA is not one of those up and down basketball seasons where you have a ton of games and you can still make the playoffs. It doesn't work like that in MMA. You get a couple losses, you get washed up, you get the door slammed behind you and they bring in the next person behind you who is here to take your place.

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

No matter how much you wanted to do right in this world, the world would find a way to crush you.

No casualties but my dignity," called the herald, tugging on his chin beard. "Some might say that's no loss at all.

If you get up to fight a battle, you might lose. But if you choose never to fight, the loss is guaranteed.

You can't own your victories if you won't admit your failures.