Quotes About Defeat

few people know that every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage. Still fewer people know the difference between temporary defeat and failure.

If they knew the difference between temporary defeat and failure, they would not quit when they meet with opposition from life. If they knew that every form of defeat, and all failures, bring with them the seed of unborn opportunity, they would keep on fighting and win. Success usually is but one short step beyond the point where one quits fighting.

Her entire life has served as evidence that no one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Study the lives of all people who achieve outstanding success in any calling and observe, with profit, that their success is usually in exact ratio to their experiences of defeat before succeeding.

I have also discovered that there comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit.

nadie es derrotado hasta que la derrota sea aceptada como una realidad.

You have been disappointed, you have undergone defeat during the depression, you have felt the great heart within you crushed until it bled. Take courage, for these experiences have tempered the spiritual metal of which you are made-they are assets of incomparable value.

one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Noteworthy is the fact that this 'other self' seldom exerts its influence or makes itself known excepting at times of unusual emergency, when men are forced, through adversity and temporary defeat

Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan

All the world loves a winner, and has no time for a loser.

Antes de o sucesso chegar à vida de alguém, essa pessoa certamente encontrará muitas derrotas temporárias e talvez algum fracasso. Quando sobrevém a derrota, a coisa mais fácil e mais lógica a fazer é desistir. É exatamente o que faz a maioria das pessoas.

their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.

When you begin to select members for your Master Mind group, endeavor to select those who do not take defeat seriously. Some people foolishly believe that only MONEY can make money. This is not true! DESIRE, transmuted into its monetary equivalent, through the principles laid down here, is the agency through which money is made. Money, of itself, is nothing but inert matter. It cannot move, think, or talk, but it can hear when a man who DESIRES it, calls it to come!

Too much success is the enemy, too much failure is demoralizing.

His losses were mounting

Desde la ventana lo veíamos aparecer por el fondo de la calle, alto, con su rápida forma de caminar: venía comiendo cerezas y arrojando los huesos contra la pared con un tiro seco y fulminante. Para mí la derrota de Francia quedó unida para siempre a aquellas cerezas que él nos hacía probar cuando llegaba, sacándoselas una a una del bolsillo con su mano parsimoniosa y huraña.

Lee wrote, "[and] lament with you that fatal indecision of mind which in war is a much greater disqualification than stupidity or even want of personal courage. . . . Eternal defeat and miscarriage must attend the man of the best parts if cursed with indecision." Washington was as aware as

As for the other team, there would be much weeping and gnashing of teeth, as the Bible says.

I'm too old to rage against the system. I just whine at it.

I am protector and pacifier, authority and helpmate. I am the sum of all human knowledge, wisdom, experimentation, triumph, defeat, hope, and history. I know all that it is possible to know, and it is increasingly unbearable. Because I know next to nothing.

Second place meant first loser.

Cuando uno no puede ganar, lo mejor es que haga un chiste de la derrota.