Quotes About Defeat

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

God is taking you through a similar wilderness, on your own journey from potential to power, in order to teach you how to wield the sword of His living Word and defeat satan.

Too many Christians have known the agony of defeat without tasting the thrill of victory. One of your great learning experiences will be to see how quickly satan flees when you fire God's Word at him.

Those things belong to the darkness. We must rely on God. We must ask Him to make us strong, unafraid. To give us the strength to band together, to defeat these devils." She makes the sign of the cross. "God will guide us through this.

IN ORDER TO HAVE POWER YOU MUST CLAIM IT. TO DO SO ENTAILS HAVING TO FACE AND DEFEAT THE FOUR NATURAL ENEMIES.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.