Quotes About Defeat

The blackest murder is the killing of the Soul's aspirations!

Peace was a more dignified version of defeat.

Better to know defeat from courage

Better to know defeat from courage than safety through chickenheartedness.

Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Villainy can win against one library, but not against an organization of readers.

A great man once said that right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

We're an invincible army, but not a victorious one.

A great man once said that right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Do you understand what that means?

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.

Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.

Clichés were only a sin in literature. In life, if they happened to be true, there was no intellectual campaign that would defeat them.

The obvious reason, of course, was that I was jealous. I didn't like the obvious reason, so I kept working for another. Finally I gave up in defeat.

That fucking crow-bodied thing had won. How gleeful it was now. All because he'd wanted to live, forget genius and destiny, and simply be happy. And it wouldn't let him.

I think I'm both lucky but also unlucky, because sometimes I miss so many matches.

I won 11 titles but yeah, no Slam. Am I proud? Yes. Am I also disappointed? Yes. But a couple of times I was unlucky.

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

This sport is a crazy thing, and what happens, it's unpredictable.

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

Football sometimes goes up and down, and we need to accept the result.

When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.

Ups and downs will be happening; coming to the final and losing by a point or so should not matter.

I was always a player who has ups and downs. I could play unbelievable, and I could lose to someone.