Quotes About Defeat

Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?

Smrt se dá porazit jediným zp?sobem, a to tak, že vlastní život promÄ›níme v mistrovské dílo.

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I had forgotten that monsters do not die. They must be killed.

He had in his army 44,000 old soldiers, every way answerable to what I have said of them before; and I shall only add, a better army, I believe, never was so soundly beaten.

It's amazing," Carrington continued, "how close Washington came to losing to the British. I mean, the man lost more battles than he won. Defeat after defeat, for years. What turned things around was that he embraced espionage.

Fear defeats more people than any other one ting in the world.

To die as a warrior means to have crossed swords and either won or lost without any consideration for winning or losing.

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.

Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.

Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, Battles are lost in the same spirit In which they are won

Both Stoicism and Epicureanism—. the apathetic acceptance of defeat, and the effort to forget defeat in the arms of pleasure—were theories as to how one might yet be happy though subjugated or enslaved;

To be happy, one must be as ignorant as youth. Youth thinks that willing and striving are joys; it has not yet discovered the weary insatiableness of desire, and the fruitlessness of fulfilment; it does not yet see the inevitableness of defeat.

Cuando el universo aplaste al hombre, este seguirá siendo más noble que aquel que lo mata, porque sabrá que está muriendo, mientras que de su victoria el universo no sabrá nada».

The goal was to defeat the enemy by limiting its ability to make good decisions.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

No defeat is made up entirely of defeat—since the world it opens is always a place formerly unsuspected. A world lost, a world unsuspected beckons to new places and no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory of whiteness .

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

They killed us, but they ain't whooped us yet.

Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but...defeat with God is not defeat.