Quotes About Defeat

You cant win unless you learn how to lose.

You won't win until you learn how to lose. I don't like to do it, to lose, but I can stand it. Along with everything else, you have to acquire the ability to accept defeat. No one makes it without stumbling.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Barcelona are not invincible.

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the issues.

Billie Jean just caught me on a bad day.

I have the best style to defeat the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world - Demetrious Johnson.

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

The Father is more concerned with the coming forth of His Son in our lives than He is in defeating Satan. Who

We must realize that it is not Satan who defeats us; it is our openness to him. To perfectly subdue the devil we must walk in the "shelter of the Most High" (Ps. 91:1).

Indeed, some of the Icelandic officials were convinced that Spassky was the better player and that he was going to defeat Fischer rather easily anyway. At the commencement of the match, they were privately expecting to see Fischer humiliated on the board.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

he showed consummate folly in allowing the Duke to fight on ground of his own choosing.

You're beginning to get the idea, Clark. We could have changed the world…now…look at us…I've become a political liability…and…you…you're a joke. I want you to remember, Clark…in all the years to come…in your most private moments…I want you to remember…my hand…at your throat…I want…you to remember…the one man who beat you.

I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where you don't want me to.

As soon as the Negro comes to an understanding of himself, and understands the rest of the world differently, when he gives birth to hope and forces back the racist universe, it is clear that his trumpet sounds more clearly and his voice less hoarsely. The new fashions in jazz are not simply born of economic competition. We must without any doubt see in them one of the consequences of the defeat, slow but sure, of the southern world of the United States.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Fran grounded out to the pitcher. Max popped a weak single to right field. Brendan struck out swinging. But the Tigers hopes for a winning season were down to the last out.

Life, with all its snares and entanglements. The rewards that never lasted, that always disappointed in the end. And all the longings ending in defeat whether they were denied or satisfied.

When it came to evil, to tolerate was to accommodate, to accommodate was to appease, and to appease was to concede defeat.