Quotes About Defeat

The rules are simple: the first one to lose dies.

The cross represents the power that denigrates human bodies, destroys life, and preys on the most vulnerable in society. As the cross is defeated, so too is that power.

An alkie in full defiant

Oh, no," Hope said. "I'm not. No, I don't believe in all that , but it's - well, it's two things. One is my job, you know? In China? So I'm all for that side of it, the war and so on; we really have to, you know, defeat those people. And the other is, uh, my husband. He's from the Highlands and he's half native, as he puts it, and I don't know if you know what the people up there are like, but I swear if he even thought I was going to vote any other way he'd walk out on me.

there is only one way this can end: with the kind of defeat that makes a people feel that their preachers have lied to them, their leaders have deserted them, that the world is against them and that God is dead.

Step number seven to receiving answered prayer is make every prayer relative to what you've asked a statement of faith instead of unbelief. You can think and say words of faith just as easily as you can think and say words of doubt and unbelief. It is thinking faith thoughts and speaking faith words that leads the heart out of defeat and into victory.

Their fame is based to a large extent on how the pigeons enabled Nathan to know before anyone else outside the battle zone of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.

All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

En batallas tales los que vencen son leales, los vencidos los traidores.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

es cómodo ser derrotado a los veinticinco años aún sin una sola cana en la cabeza sin una sola caries en la dentadura sin una sola nube en la conciencia con sólo dos o tres lagunas en la memoria y mirar el mundo desde el cielo desde el purgatorio desde el infierno desde más acá de los montes pirineos y la cordillera de los andes con frialdad con indiferencia con estupor

Nada tiene arreglo: evidencia que hay que llevar con asco y resignación.

In the darkest days of the Civil War, he had wondered if the war itself was God's punishment for the horrors of slavery. "For what else are we so fearfully scourged and defeated?" he had asked.

Candice Millard

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Professor Rowe brings into focus the great internal conflict for such people, explaining that they "certainly do not want to lose, but may also be unable to stand winning, in the conventional way, since that would mean the fight is over.

You win some, you lose some. And sometimes you win and lose at the same time. Life's a bloody cockup.

this was exactly what he did: became a turtle, all hard shell. It was the perfect protection, the perfect weapon. She lost every time. She understood that

If you win, give the credit. If you lose, take the blame.

The best way to spell victory? K-I-L-L.