Quotes About Defeat

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go!

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

Another victory like that and we are done for.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Conquer or be conquered.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.