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Quotes About Defeat

I was beating Anthony Pettis. I know nine times out of 10 I would have defeated him. It's just that one time you barely get clipped and down you go.
~ Stephen Thompson
There's only one thing people love more than their heroes, and that's stomping them into the ground.
~ CM Punk
The more I knock on doors, the more I hear from people that they're angry. We need to deliver change in Ontario, and I'm running because I'm the only person who can defeat Kathleen Wynne.
~ Caroline Mulroney
There is no worse situation to enter competition than losing the home opener.
~ Didier Deschamps
We have a duty to fight ISIS; air operations alone will not defeat ISIS.
~ Ryan Zinke
There will always be different opinions. Some might argue you should retire after a big success and others that the best time is after a big defeat.
~ Toni Kroos
The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
~ Oscar Wilde
Ehrgeiz ist die letzte Zuflucht des Versagers
~ Oscar Wilde
Dünyan?n en güçlü insan? bile olsan, sevdiÄŸine kar?? kaybedersin.
~ Oscar Wilde
Defeat is the test of the great man. Your true general is not he who rides to triumph on the tide of an easy victory, but the one who, when crushed to earth, can bend himself to the task of planning methods of rising again.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Yeah, fucknuts, its you. You're me. To get into this place, You're gonna have to kill me. Which is not gonna happen 'cause I'm not so cool with dying. What is gonna happen is that i'm gonna kick your ass and kill you dead.
~ P.C. Cast
Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.
~ P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness
~ Pablo Neruda
By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness
~ Pablo Neruda
De noche, amada, amarra tu corazón al mío y que ellos en el sueño derroten las tinieblas
~ Pablo Neruda
Sunt victorii care duc la un impas, tot aÅŸa cum sunt înfrângeri care deschid c?i noi.
~ Pascal Bruckner
Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
~ Pat Conroy
Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.
~ Pat Conroy
Every time I eat grits, it becomes perfectly clear to me why the South lost the war.
~ Pat Conroy
She wore defeat like a piece of cheap jewelry. "Worshiping them. Anointing them with oil, Mrs. Gervais," I said.
~ Pat Conroy
There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous. But there is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. The great secret of athletics is that you can learn more from losing than winning.
~ Pat Conroy
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.
~ Pat Riley
A mere man alone can easily be defeated, but a man alive with the power of God within him is invincible.
~ Dale Carnegie
enable us to walk increasingly in the wholeness, holiness, and power of the kingdom of the heavens. No one need live in spiritual and personal defeat. A life of victory over sin and circumstance is accessible to all.
~ Dallas Willard