Quotes About Defeat

There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

The advantages of a losing team: (i) There is everything to hope for and nothing to fear, (2.) Defeats do not disturb one's sleep. (3) An occasional victory is a surprise and a delight. (4) There is no danger of any club passing you. (5) You are not asked fifty times a day, "What was the score?"; people take it for granted that you lost.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

History is littered with leaders and movements, now long vanished and mostly forgotten, who failed to get to the deep truths of how and why their defeat happened.

Whenever you can evoke a strong emotion and want somebody to tune in, whether it's to see you win or get beat up - and I've been on both sides of that - it's a win.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.

It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

Charlotte Flair - she took my title from me. I did beat her twice; however, she beat me and took my title from me, unfortunately. But I'm gonna get it back.

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.