Quotes About Defeat

What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?

The principle of competition is, as Hesiod pointed out long ago, built in the very roots of the world; there is something in the nature of things that calls for a real victory and real defeat. —IRVING BABBITT

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

We rise, we fall. We may rise by falling. Defeat shapes us. Our only wisdom is tragic, known to late, and only to the lost.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

Furcsa – mondta, s minthogy az este folyamán el?ször szólalt meg, mindenki felkapta a fejét –, furcsa. Nemrég valaki azt mondta nekem: megyünk a középkorba, középkori harcmodorra kell hát áttérnünk. Most úgy érzem, van benne valami. Minden forradalmat és minden háborút kétszer kell elveszteni. A háborút most veszítjük el másodszor. Eddig csak az országot vesztettük el. Most már magunkat is.

El nacionalismo mide el mundo en superioridad o inferioridad, en triunfo o derrota, en nos hicieron y les hicimos.

I think that sometimes the only thing that can make you laugh is accepting the idea that there's no way out.

You can go on losing after loss.

For Mrs. Bradley, the voice she heard was the voice of the resurrected Jesus. It spoke of hope that, although white racists could take her son's life, they could not deprive his life and death of an ultimate meaning. As in the resurrection of the Crucified One, God could transmute defeat into triumph, ugliness into beauty, despair into hope, the cross into the resurrection.

The cross is a paradoxical religious symbol because it inverts the world's value system with the news that hope comes by way of defeat, that suffering and death do not have the last word, that the last shall be first and the first last.

Sometimes only evil could defeat another evil. Degrees

Outwardly, however, I pretended to share all the normal enthusiasms over victory and despairs over defeat; and I think I carried it off pretty well. There is always some ultimate thing you must do when you are in Rome, even if the Romans are exceptionally broad-minded.

One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can tear them down to nothing.

You have known defeat, and suffering. And known loss, and have found your way out and have a understanding of life that fills you with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving courage to say, Yes to life.

Thus we are forced into a difficult choice: anxiety or depression. If we move forward, as our soul insists, we may be flooded with anxiety. If we do not move forward, we will suffer the depression, the pressing down of the soul's purpose. In such a difficult choice one must choose anxiety, for anxiety is at least the path of personal growth; depression is a stagnation and defeat of life.

And how meaningful Beckett's admonition is to me today: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Rilke's paradoxical words also draw me onward still toward the unlived life that haunts all of us. Our task, he writes, is to be 'continuously defeated by ever-larger things.

And how meaningful Beckett's admonition is to me today: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Rilke's paradoxical words also draw me onward still toward the unlived life that haunts all of us. Our task, he writes, is to be 'continuously defeated by ever-larger things.' 145

Thus we are forced into a difficult choice—anxiety and depression. If we move forward, as our soul insists, we ... In such difficult choice one must choose anxiety, for anxiety at least is a path of potential growth; depression is a stagnation and defeat of life.

No, I ain't. I'm shit and nails and all kinds of bad news.

He had bludgeoned the Southern will to resist the military strength of the United States. He had destroyed any realistic hope of ultimate Confederate success, and the people of the South realized that the Confederate armies could not protect them. The

Didn't you got back? I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.

Sighing, she gave a brief nod. "I was supposed to win. I was supposed to finish you off. They never counted on you winning. And then you didn't kill me. It was awful." "You're welcome," I said, feeling fresh anger ignite. "I'll try not to humiliate you by letting you live next time." (Max II to Max)

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