Quotes About Defeat

His realm, we will continue to live defeated lives in the face of walls too thick to crumble, and an enemy looming too large for us to overcome. One Game, Two Chapels, One God

the inscription at its base put San Jacinto on a par with Waterloo and other exalted fights. The defeat of Santa Anna, the self-styled 'Napoleon of the West, led to the annexation of Texas, war with Mexico, and the acquisition of one third of the present area of the American nation. As such, San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world.

It is, quite simply, humiliating.

Oh che sanguinosa e spaziosa porta Fa l'una e l'altra spada ovunque giugna, Nell'arme e nelle carni! E se la vita Non esce, sdegno tienla al petto unita.

Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water - the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.

But love doesn't always generate hope. Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much love or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water--the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.

The UDC's monument campaigns were always supported by a narrative that Confederate veterans fought nobly and that defeat did not erase the justness of their cause.

that's when you get your butt kicked', as Wilander puts it. He reflects on his finest moments, not

Without naïveté, father and son would have been defeated; had they aimed lower, according to the logic of probability, they would have failed.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.

Shake hands, kids," Jack said. "Remember, humble in victory, gracious in defeat." He grinned up at her. "I feel very humble, don't you?

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

As long as the enemy is not defeated, he may defeat me; then I shall be no longer my own master; he will dictate the law to me as I did to him.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed; war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery of what sort of place the world really is. Others must look forward to death by defeat - their bodies gone, their world destroyed.

Cuando el monstruo fracasa, no le queda sino desaparecer.

in real life, monsters weren't always vanquished, and heroes didn't always win.

Michael and Jo Dee had given up long ago. They had brought the bottle and clue along and were playing "drop the mystery clue in the bottle." As far as Michele was concerned, they might as well drop it back in the ocean.

I started a new page and wrote a title at the top: "Ten Ways to Defeat Macho Dickheadism." Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I could defeat that I could save the world.

Most games are lost, not won.

I had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it is a game of skill.

Most ball games are lost, not won.