Quotes About Defeat

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. It's ok to cry..!! You can overcome

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

And so what moved him onward and down the office building's stairway was not any sort of foolish hope that he could actually be saved, but competitive fury at the fact that he had been outdone by the suicidal improvisations of this fanatic.

Punjab, the more certain he became that simple and obvious would defeat complicated and clever

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

The enemy is too strong. I can't fight them. They're too smart. You're smart too, soldier. Not smart enough. So you're just going to give up? That's the plan.

Mystery] delivered one of the many great aphorisms that that he used to turn defeat into triumph. Where there's a problem, there's an opportunity.

Ignorance is not bliss; it is defeat. If you are a Christian, you are the target. If

Before we received Christ, we were slaves to sin. But because of Christ's work on the cross, sin's power over us has been broken. Satan has no right of ownership or authority over us. He is a defeated foe, but he is committed to keeping us from realizing that. He knows he can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past, subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.

I couldn't buy the lice off a sick cat, the cabbie answered from the very depths of self-deprecation.

Second place is just the first loser.

a place where the worst elements of humanity had defeated civilization.

By the summer of 1920 Lenin felt confident enough to export the Revolution westwards, ordering the Red Army to march on Warsaw and confidently talking of the need to 'sovietize Hungary and perhaps Czechia and Romania too'. Only their decisive defeat by the Polish army on the banks of the River Vistula halted the spread of the Bolshevik epidemic.

Even if, as seems likely, Islamic State is defeated in Iraq and Syria, its network in cyberspace and in the West will live on, a toxic milieu where the memes of dawa can breed, converting one loser after another to the cause of murderous martyrdom.

We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.

In short, with mercenaries your greatest danger is from their inertness and cowardice, with auxiliaries from their valour. Wise Princes, therefore, have always eschewed these arms, and trusted rather to their own, and have preferred defeat with the latter to victory with the former, counting that as no true victory which is gained by foreign aid.

It takes over—fear, I mean. No matter how hard you try to fight it, it takes over, crushing the life out of you.

The Hatton fight left a bad taste in my mouth.

My idol, Muhammad Ali, got beat when nobody thought he would, and he came back and back to beat Joe Frazier.

I could have brought Kevin Kelley to my own backyard and beat him up there. But I didn't want to do that. I wanted to come to his own backyard and bring him down in front of his own crowd, a place he loves.