Quotes About Defeat

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

There is no dishonor in losing the race, Don said. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. ~p 227

There is no dishonour in losing the race," Don said. "There is only dishonour in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

There is no dishonor in losing the race," Don said. "There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

Perder la carrera no es deshonroso. Lo deshonroso es no correr por temor a perder.

Ni ne?astno izgubiti dirko, " je rekel Don. "Ne?astno je ne dirkati, ker se bojiš izgubiti.

the purpose of the legend was to foster a heroic image of secession and the war so that the Confederates would have salvaged at least their honor from the all-encompassing defeat.

I spit on my life. Death in battle would be better for me than that I, defeated, survive.

Expecting defeat will surely bring it

Now we take the ship, the planet and the galaxy back...and shove it all right up Thanos' ass.

My shorter definition of SF (is) Hubris clobbered by nemesis.

Given special powers, anyone can do anything. It takes away all the merit of achievement. It's like King Arthur's magic sword. As long as he wielded it, no one could defeat him. Well, that means that the virtue was in the sword, not in him. Even I could be a great knight with a sword like that. I'd be much more impressed by Arthur if he'd fought his battles with an ordinary sword, and still won them.

From first to last the Army of the Potomac was unlucky. It fought for four years, and it took more killing, proportionately, than any army in American history, and its luck was always out; it did its level best and lost; when it won the victory was always clouded by a might-have-been, and when at last the triumph came at Appomattox there were so very, very many of its men who weren't there to see it.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted by reality

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

He knew suddenly that if he fell he would fall forever. Into the abyss, plunging into his own terror and defeat, endlessly, through the self-spinning labyrinth, mind frozen in boundless anguish, a maze of unending experience, unending fright, implacable walls, halls, steps, ramps, crypts, vaults, passages, always icy, always out of reach.

History is not the glory of the winners, it is the weapon of the losers

The human will is engaged in spiritual warfare, but it is not human willpower that defeats the forces of Satan. Rather it is the supernatural process by which the Spirit makes his will our will by renewing within us a consuming, overwhelming, compelling love of God.

The gradual colonization of the west from the Irish kingdom of Dál Riata during the first half of the first millennium AD, and the consolidation of their Gaelic kingdom in Scotland following their defeat by the Ui Neill, had an immense cultural impact in Scotland.

A one-way ticket to Palookaville.

A te vengo, balena che tutto distruggi ma non vinci: fino all'ultimo lotto con te; dal cuore dell'inferno ti trafiggo; in nome dell'odio, vomito a te l'ultimo mio respiro.