Quotes About Defeat

Defeats are always tough, whatever you have lost, and they affect me the same way they affect anyone who loses a match - no more or less.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

Whitaker cannot be and will not be the best because he has lost. His style is bad and he doesn't motivate people.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose. So when you think about that, you're always motivated to, 'I don't want to lose the next game. I don't want to lose the next game.'

When you lose, it motivates you to go again.

I like to win my own way, and I like to lose my own way. I believe motivation comes from within.

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

A warrior may retreat. He does not flee. He may lie in ambush. He does not hide. He may experience victory or defeat. He does not cease to serve. But a servant with divided loyalties is no servant at all.

I am a warrior, Your Majesty," Thrawn said. "A warrior may retreat. He does not flee. He may lie in ambush. He does not hide. He may experience victory or defeat. He does not cease to serve.

Yes, they'd lost. But it was just a battle, not the war.

Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra

We must never shed tears That is the life form's defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.

Remember that a sword held by someone who is about to die will never be able to protect anything

If you love fighting so much…then stop whining for me to kill you. Don't lose and then beg to be killed! Never admit defeat until you're dead! If you lose and you're still alive…then consider it your lucky day. If you had any brains you'd be thinking of ways to stay alive right now! Live…and dedicate yourself to killing the one who left you alive.

and air power had never won a war.

Actually, he hadn't just complained; she'd come home from school one afternoon and found him stabbing his paperback edition with a steak knife, the tip of the blade penetrating the cover and sinking far enough down into the early chapters that he sometimes had trouble pulling it out. When she asked him what he was doing, he explained in a calm and serious voice that he was trying to kill the book before it killed him.

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

So you think that you're a failure, do ya? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you have any sense at all, we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail! But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

As a grandiose self-deception, war is o' the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the same time - as a means o' defeatin' death, but neither o' them do a blinkin' thing but sanction dyin'. Throughout history, Death's best friend has been a priest with a knife.

We seem to face an enemy who, no matter how many times we win, will best us in the end. He has so many allies: time, disease, boredom, stupidity, religious quackery, and bad habits.

As a grandiose self-deception, war is o' the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion—usually both at the same time—as a means o' defeatin' death, but neither o' them do a blinkin' thing but sanction dyin'. Throughout history, Death's best friend has been a priest with a knife.

Can't you function unless you're losing?

You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.