Quotes About Defeat

The name of valiant person will always be an umbrella of a dead loss.

Men are not made from easy victories, but based on great defeats

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

To cease to love -- that is defeat.

People hate to loose more than they love to win.

I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

He chowed down with the speed and force of a well-organised military campaign. He didn't so much have breakfast as defeat it.

His very mantle was aspersed. In another minute he would stand sodden, inglorious, a mock.

A good general, Allister was fond of saying, plans in two ways: for an absolute victory and for an absolute defeat. The one enables him to squeeze the last ounce of success out of a triumph; the other keeps a failure from turning into a catastrophe.

America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say "perception" because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn't uncontested, it was positively devastating.

And with the final question, "Why didn't they fight back?" came the inevitable dismissal. "Because it would not have made a difference.

Wasn't this strategy, painting victory over defeat, the motive behind so many past wars?

Stop that! These words create alliances with the devil. They grant him access to your spirit. It is not God's will that you live a defeated, marginalized, unhappy, and weary life. Turn a deaf ear to the old voices and make new choices. "The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good inheritance" (Ps. 16:6). Live out of your inheritance, not your circumstance. God has already promised a victory. And he has provided weapons for the fight.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today

If I survived at all, it would be a triumph. If I swam, it would be a miracle. As I unlocked my door, I thought of my mother putting her age back fifteen years and going into the merchant marines. I had to try. If I ended in defeat, at least I would be trying. Trying to overcome was black people's honorable tradition.

You may encounter many defeats. But you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats so you can know who you are, what you can rise from and how you can still come out of it.

The years And cold defeat live deep in Lines along my face. They dull my eyes, yet I keep on dying, Because I love to live.

I washed walls, polished door knobs and the tiny window. The scales and stench of defeat floated into the pail's dirty water.

It was hopeless. Their journey was ended before it had truly begun.