Quotes About Defeat

Sometimes, the only way to win is to lose.

It was said with all the panache of a dying hero announcing a mortal blow.

You must lose, at least once, in order to fully appreciate a win!

You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn't work. The harder you fight, the more ground you lose. Struggling merely expedites your inevitable defeat.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War

I will never again permit myself to forget that isolation is the first step to defeat.

We justify our heartless calls by our commitment to one day defeat all our enemies so the people can live the remainder of their days in peace and prosperity. We've become politicians.

We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.

The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

And the second is about change. Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day–to–day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often.

Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.

Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.

Qué importa si soy derrotado en el espacio, si sé que estoy destinado a vencer en el tiempo?

Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to 'fight,' as if sickness were a character failing. Illness could not be defeated no matter how hard you fought, and pain, once it had you in its grasp, was transformational.

Winning is accepting that there are some races a person cannot win.

It begins to seem to me that life is little more than a series of losses, and as you must know by now, I hate losing.

That's the gamer in you, trying to figure out how you might have beat the level. My brain is treacherous like that, too. But there was nothing you could have done, Ant. The game wasn't winnable.

Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to "fight," as if sickness were a character failing. Illness could not be defeated, no matter how hard you fought, and pain, once it had you in its grasp, was transformational

Grief was an opponent he would never be able to defeat.

God's glory is not always immediate, but it is certain. He will be glorified for His holiness, for His defeat of Satan, for His righteous judgment, and for His grace to redeemed sinners (Revelation 5). This glory must have a backdrop of sin to be fully realized.