Quotes About Defeat

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.

not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat—and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going.

Old Russia had had virtually no middle class, and the governing class had been paralyzed by defeat in war. But other countries had a large middle class, self-conscious and powerful, and when you tried to jam through your proletarian revolution, what you got was Mussolini or Hitler!

Many of them couldn't fathom how Germany could have lost this war against the world, and they kept speculating about conspiracies and malicious forces that had brought about the shame of their defeat.

Din suferin?? în suferin??,ajunsese puÈ›in câte puÈ›in la convingerea c? viaÈ›a e o lupt? È™i c? în aceast? lupt? el era cel învins.Nu avea alt? arm? decât ura.

To conclude wars decisively and achieve prewar aims, the victor must defeat, and often even humiliate militarily, an enemy and force the loser to abandon prewar behavior before offering a magnanimous peace. "Humiliate," here, does not mean to gratuitously insult or ridicule a prostrate enemy but rather to show him that the wages of his unprovoked aggression are the end of his ability to make war on others.

Out of spite, McCain had flipped on his earlier support of Obamacare just to cast the deciding vote that defeated Trump's effort to repeal and replace it.

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

they no longer had any hope, but they had despair. Despair is a last weapon that sometimes brings victory; Virgil said so.

From suffering to suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a war; and that in this war he was the conquered.

What is Waterloo? A victory? No. The winning number in the lottery.

pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre on our heads." These

Victory, when it is in accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other sublime. For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success.

Let's fight, ye gods and little fishes! I've had enough of despotism.

But if we want to defeat darkness, we must find our own way to the light. We have to follow our hearts and accept the danger. I

nation is beaten only when it has accepted that it is beaten.

A nation is beaten only when it has accepted that it is beaten.

He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.

You can't fire me because I quit.

Basketball Rule #5 When you stop playing your game you've already lost.

Basketball Rule #10 A loss is inevitable, like snow in winter. True champions learn to dance through the storm.

As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: "Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.

Anything you shun will have won.