Quotes About Defeat

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman, not the grief of a child ...

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

He rose without a friend, and sat down without an enemy.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Knute Rockne liked 'bad losers.' He said 'good losers' lose too often.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well, as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Football games aren't won, they're lost.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.

lice pobjednika je kao ruža, ali lice pobje?enoga je kao grobljanska zemlja, od koje svatko bježi i glavu okre?e.

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.

A belief is the most contagious influence you possess. If you believe in circumstances, they can and will defeat you. If you believe in yourself, you are assured victory.

If we cannot win, we can at least deprive them of the victory.

Blow me, Grim Reaper!

Don't ask. We're all but done for in any case, taking that Fiona couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo, and Paddy and Maureen both cheat like tinkers at a fair. What are you talking about? Why would anybody hit a cow with a banjo? He only smiled. The point is, Fiona couldn't so we'll be done soon enough.

Unstrung: that is the word that comes back to him from Homer. The spear shatters the breastbone, blood spurts, the limbs are unstrung, the body topples like a wooden puppet. Well, his limbs have been unstrung and now his spirit is unstrung too. His spirit is ready to topple.

Kind of like winning the fifty-meter ass-stroke in the Loserlympics