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Quotes About Defeat

the old Vince Lombardi school of "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser," Warch couldn't stand the thought
~ Vince Flynn
Sometimes there's no way to win. The only thing you can do is manage your losses.
~ Vince Flynn
Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.
~ Virgil
Una salus victis, nullam sperare salutem!
~ Virgil
The one safety for the defeated is to have no hope of safety
~ Virgil
Una salus uictis nullam sperare salutem
~ Virgil
I do not pray. I revenge myself upon the day.
~ Virginia Woolf
Fight ! Fight! I repeated. It is the effort and the struggle, it is the perpetual warfare, it is the shattering and piecing together. This is the daily battle, defeat or victory, the absorbing pursuit.
~ Virginia Woolf
Yeah, you do. Because right now, I'm your best hope to defeat Byzamoth. So if you don't want to spend eternity bent over and holding your ankles for him, you'll back the fuck off. ~Wraith
~ Larissa Ione
I hate to lose more than I like to win.
~ Larry Bird
When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.
~ lasorda tommy
From this day forward, until victory or defeat, transfer, discharge, capture, or death took them from it, the vast Pacific would be beneath and around them. Its bottom was already littered with downed warplanes and the ghosts of lost airmen. Every day of this long and ferocious war, more would join them.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
But I do know about fear. I've faced it, more than once. That's what one has to do with fear, by the way. Face it and defeat it because you can't ever run far enough or fast enough to escape from it.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
Sometimes the monsters are real . . . Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
they tore the Magellan escutcheon from the gates and smashed it to the ground.
~ Laurence Bergreen
A psychic attack of any kind, always begins with the evil being or person looking for your Achilles' heel. This phrase refers to a weakness in spite of overall strength, which can lead to a downfall. Almost everyone, no matter how accomplished in life, has their Achilles' heel, some weakness, some fault, that can be exploited by a black magician.
~ Laurence Galian
You have the power to defeat any Alien Parasites. We have divine authority over all creation because you are intimately joined with the Christos and Sophia. You are more unique than you can possibly imagine. You are so unique that your way to enlightenment is the only way, for you and you only. Everyone else, if they exist, have their own paths.
~ Laurence Galian
Winnen is niets, mijn jongen. Winnen laat geen sporen na. Winnen is bevrediging. Verliezen is leven.
~ Cees Nooteboom
Münaka?ada zafer, ma?lup olan?nd?r, yenilmek zenginle?mektir. …Münaka?a hakikati birlikte aramakt?r… Hakikat bin bir cepheli, bin bir görünü?lü. Kar??n?zdaki, göremedi?inizi gösterecek size. Sizden farkl? dü?ündü?ü ölçüde yarat?c? ve ö?reticidir.
~ Cemil Meriç
Hidup hanya menunda kekalahan.
~ Chairil Anwar
Sometimes the bitch wins.
~ Charlaine Harris
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
~ Charles Baudelaire
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
It is time for us Christians to face up to our responsibility for holiness. Too often we say we are "defeated" by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient. It might be well if we stopped using the terms "victory" and "defeat" to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms "obedience" and "disobedience.
~ Charles Colson