Quotes About Defeat

The last word about the Little Bighorn belongs to perhaps Custer's most insightful chronicler, Robert Utley. "The simplest answer, usually overlooked, is that the army lost largely because the Indians won," he writes. "To ascribe defeat entirely to military failings is to devalue Indian strength and leadership." The invasion of the Black Hills and the order to abandon the unceded lands galvanized the Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes.

Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Shall we surrender?' he said mildly. 'I think we should. After all we outnumber him only fifteen to one, we have only muskets to oppose his bow, and we are surrounded. Or at least I think we are. How is it that one man can surround fifteen? Please clear up this mystery for me.

Apenas quem já experimentou a frustração da derrota consegue saborear com plenitude a alegria da vitória

Jeg tror jammen at du endelig har beseiret meg, svarte han med et humoristisk glimt i øyet.

The impulse to win is a valuable thing, right up until you let it make you into a loser.

No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game.

But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slayer of evil, I defeat all those who raise their swords in opposition to Arthur, King of all Britain." "Trust me, kid, women prefer a man who can cook.

If you accept failure, then you will identify with being defeated.

The blood of the setting sun suddenly spilled out on the western horizon like that of millions of people who have died in some violent war that has broken out between Earth and Heaven. Suddenly the war ended in defeat and all-embracing darkness descended and pervaded all four corners of the globe, wiping out the sadness and shyness that was in her eyes.

Te? tego próbowa?em. Ignorowa? rz?d w nadziei, ?e zniknie. Nie znikn??.

Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

I'm not going to be negative and say it's fine to lose three or four on the bounce, of course not, but if it happens, we have to cope with it. I've been involved in relegated teams and they are the ones where a few defeats cripple you and you allow it to become a spiral.

John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.

I dont have good luck in the match points.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.