Quotes About Defeat

People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.

If you want something done right, just forget it.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad

No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.