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Quotes About Defeat

Patience itself was not necessarily defeat. Rather defeat really began when patience was thought to be defeat
~ K?b? Abe
AÅŸa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant.
~ K?b? Abe
Hitlerovo jednání bylo od po?átku zam??eno proti jakékoli možnosti smíÃ…â"¢ení. Existovalo jen vítÄ›zství, nebo zkáza.
~ Karl Jaspers
A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
~ James Ellis
You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.
~ Michael Moorer
Many a good man I have seen go under.
~ Walt Whitman
Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
~ William Carlos Williams
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
~ Walter Scott
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
~ Homer
That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man
~ Joe Calzaghe
Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.
~ Henry Wriston
When a man angers you, he conquers you.
~ Toni Morrison
The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.
~ George Allen
I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.
~ Anne Ellis
Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
~ Anthony Wayne
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.
~ David Gemmell
The Islamic State fighters in Mosul are dead men walking and I think they increasingly know it.
~ David Petraeus
A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.
~ Edmond Rostand
Dead men have no victory.
~ Euripides
A frightened man is a beaten man.
~ George R. R. Martin
That man said he'd take your head too." "Well, as to that," Yoren said, "if he can get it off my shoulders, he's welcome to it.
~ George R. R. Martin
Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke