Quotes About Defeat

1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.

silent defeats taste better

In verlorenen Schlachten besteht die letzte Verteidigung in der Gleichgültigkeit.

her face, less well-chiselled than it used to be, had that slightly defeated expression that comes with routine and disappointment.

En las batallas perdidas, la última defensa es la indiferencia

Lack of subtlety, that's how you beat magic.

Nobody likes for the hero to walk away.

NO. For someone to win, somebody else must lose. For that person to have won they must have lost something in the first place. The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced. Not even justice itself is perfect.

In effect, the human being should be considered the priority objective in a political war. And conceived as the military target of guerrilla war, the human being has his most critical point in his mind. Once his mind has been reached, the political animal has been defeated, without necessarily receiving bullets.

Realizing your potential is gone—that's pretty bad. But the worst thing is being okay with that.

the most wretched of sights, the just-crushed spirit.

You have to live well to defeat whoever's doing this to you," I said. "You can't let them win.

It's hard to put your shoulders back and say, 'right lads, let's win this game,' when we're not actually winning anything.

The last of our enemies is laid low.

It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.

You're not going to be selling a lot of merchandise if you are losing all your matches.

I could never go back to Mexico if I lost to Camacho.

The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.

You can lose. Michael Jordan lost, but that doesn't mean he wasn't the GOAT.

I know what it is to win and to lose, and the last thing you want when you've lost is to have a microphone stuck under your nose.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.