Quotes About Defeat

One bad general is worth two good ones.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

War is an admission of failure

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

When we declare war for peace, we may win the war and lose the battle.

In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat.

So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.

Victory is always bittersweet.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.