Quotes About Defeat

UnutuÅŸ, pasif bir ÅŸey olmak ÅŸöyle dursun, tersine palazlanarak sonunda hepimizi yenilgiye uÄŸratan etkileyici bir güçtür.

Nobody wins, ask Caesar

Di medan perang, manusia jahat itu memang tidak bisa dikalahkan

Envy is a deadly sin. It is a universal disease. If Brihaspati who could defeat the goddess of knowledge herself in learning became a victim to envy, what is there to say about ordinary mortals?

I lay on my back, whimpering at the dark sky, and tried to remember when I'd last gotten my ass kicked this thoroughly. Less than a week ago, probably, because it had been a bad couple of weeks, but

If winning cures everything, then losing poisons everything.

Lower your sights, boy,' he said to Joe Winder. 'I agree, justice is probably out of the question. But we can damn sure ruin their day.

Adolf Hitler! Ken, it makes me furious. Forty million people die to defeat that megalomaniac, and he's the star of the first broadcast to another civilization? He's representing us. And them. It's that madman's dream come true.

Surviving it provided validation of who and what they were, of their ability to confront and defeat the death that was constantly stalking them.

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young. - Cara

She had thought she could make a difference. She had thought she could drive back the advancing horde—by the sheer weight of her will, if need be. It was arrogance on her part. The forces of freedom were lost.

Darken Rahl shook his fists to the sky. "No!

Admitting defeat established a mental state of resignation that made it certain.

Whoever wins thinks he was in the right. The loser will always believe himself wronged.

The statue at Alesia, over 20 feet tall, was erected in 1865 at the commission of Napoleon III, and the face appears to be modelled on his own. It is inscribed with Caesar's 'quotation' from Vercingetorix, slightly adapted – 'Gaul united, Forming a single nation, Inspired by a shared spirit, Can defy the world'. In 1870 Napoleon III led France to defeat by Germany.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, That's what I call sorted! Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.

I thought, in Nature, the defeated animal just rolls on its back in submission and that's the end of it,' said Vimes, as they clattered after the disappearing swamp dragon. 'Wouldn't work with dragons,' said Lady Ramkin. 'Some daft creature rolls on its back, you disembowel it. That's how they look at it. Almost human, really.

They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it.

Witches preferred to cut enemies dead with a look. There was no sense in killing your enemy. How would she know you'd won?

Releasing both victory and defeat, the tranquil minds dwell in happiness. Victory produces hostility.

The Burmese chronicles say that after the Nanzhao invasions a new dynasty arose, founded by a semimythical warrior-king named Pyusawhti. An expert archer, he came to Pagan and defeated, in the manner of St. George, a great bird, a great boar, a great tiger, and a flying squirrel, freeing the local folk from their terror.