Quotes About Defeat

Takin' it to ISIS, man!" Blue Jacket thumped his chest twice, and I read the saying on his shirt: Turning ISIS into WASWAS.

As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they were beaten in the long run not by the sword but by the axe.

Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing

If sheer strength is your only contribution to war, you will ultimately be defeated.

do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.

Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Winning provides happiness. Losing provides wisdom.

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go.

In strength, the fear of enemies, In beauty, the fear of old age, In knowledge, the fear of defeat, In virtue, the fear of scandal, In the body, the fear of death. In this life all is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. (In Search of God and

Stan Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the other - he's gotta go down.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.