Quotes About Defeat

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: you can win or you can lose or it can rain.

Heroes aren't always the ones who win," she said. "They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

Everyone is a loser. Winners are just losers with more patience.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

Me and the bottle have always been friends, we've had a few old nasty fights but the bottle would always win, so when I go to answer that final curtain call, I can hear these words being whispered by all... Ol' George stopped drinking today.

We march to victory or we march to defeat, but we go forward — only forward.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

In life, the monsters win.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

I swear to you, I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it.

A dead enemy is a joy forever

Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost.

Our maester chuckled at me and told us that Prince Rhaegar was certain to defeat this rebel. That was when Stark said, 'In this world only winter is certain. We may lose our heads, it's true . . . but what if we should prevail?' My father sent him on his way with his head still on his shoulders. 'If you lose,' he told Lord Eddard, 'you were never here.'" "No more than I was," said Davos Seaworth.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

Glory may be everlasting, yet it is fleeting as well—soon forgotten in the aftermath of even the most famous of victories if they lead to greater disasters.

He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.

Would you lesson me in warfare? I was fighting battles when you were sucking mother's milk. And losing battles too.

But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes...In life, the monsters win, she told herself

A man will win one tourney, and fall quickly in the next. A slick spot in the grass may mean defeat, or what you ate for supper the night before. A change in the wind may bring the gift of victory." He glanced at Ser Jorah. "Or a lady's favor knotted round an arm." Mormont's face darkened. "Be careful what you say, old man.

He could not even get off his own horse, except to fall.