Quotes About Defeat

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

No statue for the vanquished. (Pas de statue Pour les vaincus)

It is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.

If he had been a man with strength of purpose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have broken the net that held him, or broken his heart; but being what he was, he languidly slipped into this smooth descent, and never more took one step upward.

Al que renuncia a intentarlo no le queda ya otro recurso que acostarse y dejarse morir.

is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.

This was very like his way of conducting that encounter in the garden; very like. His manner of bearing his poverty, too, exactly corresponded to his manner of bearing that defeat. It seemed to me that he took all blows and buffets now, with just the same air as he had taken mine then. It was evident that he had nothing around him but the simplest necessaries, for everything that I remarked upon turned out to have been sent in on my account from the coffee-house or somewhere else.

In referring to the Führer's military acumen, he referred to him as a "dilettante" and quipped that Germany's defeat on the eastern front was due to too many Russians and one German too many.

7"The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.

Senin kurallar?n" dedi Revell, "Kendi kurallar?nda kaybedeceksin. Kara kutunun beni durduraca??n? söylüyorsun ve bu kara kutu benim ben olmam? engelleyecek demek. Ben yanl?? olduÄŸunu söylüyorum. Ben terk ettikçe senin kaybettiÄŸini söylüyorum ve eÄŸer kara kutu beni öldürürse, sonsuza dek sen kaybedersin.

This smile isn't a lack of pain. It's a victory gesture of not letting pain defeat me.

He turned being a Big Loser into a perfect triumph by managing to lose the presidency in a way bigger and more original than anyone else had ever lost it before.

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

Failure too is a form of death.

You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. The only way to defeat it is to build relationships with those people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.

Victory is sweet, but how you handle yourself in defeat is often more telling.

Someone was going to want to say, I'm fucked.

YOUNG WOMAN: Time is altered, the years to come are altered You know where you will find me I, fear, I, death I, the memory beyond reach I, the recollection of the tenderness of your hands I, the sadness of our broken life I will defeat "it's not my concern" with my anguish

Se si sappia vivere da vinti, lo si è un po' meno.

What makes you grow is defeat, making mistakes. It is what keeps you alert. When you win you think: "Great, we've won.

Alberto intentó consolarme con el sabido refrán de los derrotados: «Por algo pasan las cosas» (o como diría mi abuela: «Estaba de Dios que no sucediera»). Sí, de los derrotados, porque los que no se dan por vencidos jamás aceptan el veredicto de las circunstancias.

frente al vasallaje y a una vida destinada a la miseria y al oprobio, los nativos se refugiaban en el alcohol y en la delicuencia. Y no solo eso: sin cultura, sin identidad, sin una tierra a la cual llamar hogar, no les quedaba más que adoptar una actitud servil. Reconocer que no había más salida que agachar la cabeza, obedecer órdenes y aceptar la iniquidad. Pueblos enteros derrotados.

Me costó superar el trance. Deprimida me aislé en casa a rumiar mi fracaso. Encima tuve que bregar con el enojo de Claudio por mi desnudez. Amigos suyos habían ido a las funciones. «Ellos vieron lo que solo debía ver yo», protestó. Estaba tan abatida que no tuve arrestos para enfrentar su machismo, su posesividad, su ego herido o lo que fuera.