Quotes About Defeat

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

God's favor in its fullness is that which allows strength to overcome with weakness, love to overcome hatred, God's goodness to defeat Satan's evil nature.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

When fire and water are at war it is the fire that loses.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.

I have never known anyone to win a battle waged against his emotions. When a sentiment hoists his glimmering blade into the air, the battle is lost before it has begun.

Failure is part of life, but surrender is the end of life.

Life always begins with triumph but tends to end with tragedy.

People sccumb to injuries and i sccumbed to my thoughts

Sometime we get so tired that we wish to get defeated, and want to feel the pleasure of that failure.

Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat

Attitude distinguishes between a winner and a loser.

A prize fight is much like eating an ice-cream.Someone has to take a good licking!

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness