Quotes About Defeat

I am so sick of you stealing my joy. But that's changing too. My joy doesn't come from my friends, it doesn't come from my job, it doesn't even come from my husband. My joy is found in Jesus, and just in case you forgot, He has already defeated you. So go back to hell where you belong and leave my family alone!

Her stillness defeated his storm.

sometimes you learn more from losing than you do from winning. When you lose, you learn how to keep going.

What can I do to defeat him, Billy of the goats that are gruff?

He be Hercules," said Billy. "He just defeated a monster made out of rocks and mud." Robin Hood looked impressed. "Did he indeed?

We put you to the test; we failed.

In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.

The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

the restlessness we feel can either be the defeat that keeps us in the wilderness or the birthing pangs that bring forth something new within us.

subjugating opponents, what the Romans termed Vae victis (Woe to the conquered).

general staff and the divisions there exists usually only a single radio wire; between the divisions and the regiments and battalions, there are only messengers. The failure of the Russian radio service came home to them bitterly, and the defeat of the Red leadership can be primarily attributed to it.

a regular army can only be defeated by another army. Militias or other irregular forms of military organization alone, while capable of heroic resistance, will ultimately collapse before a regular army. The collapse of a national army (almost always precipitated by a military defeat) can create an opening for a revolutionary movement. But if that movement does not create its own army the old order will reconstitute its army or a foreign power will do it for them.

the Brotherhood was not a throwback to the past but a reflection of its modern rivals, with attributes that would allow it to take on such ideologies and defeat them.

most of the regime's practices, whether via direct repression or the punitive dimension which autarky inserted into everyday life, can be encapsulated as teaching the defeated the meaning of their defeat.15

imperial defeat turned the military into a powerful internal political lobby determined to find a new role while guarding against any loss of income or prestige in the interim.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat.

Mover of Mountains Faith is a force that is greater than knowledge or power or skill, And the darkest defeat turns to triumph if you trust in God's wisdom and will, For faith is a mover of mountains— there's nothing man cannot achieve If he has the courage to try it and then has the faith to believe.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I watched her cry--drown herself in a flood of tears. It is a great thing to be in the presence of a rational being who cries. A weak, broken creature shedding tears makes the same impression as an all-powerful god to whom one prays. In her weakness and defeat Amy was above human power.

La lucha contra el aburrimiento ha comenzado. No sabemos si el enemigo público será derrotado. Y sin embargo de esta lucha, de este desafío, depende, hasta cierto punto, el destino y sentido de la modernidad.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

He was in way over his head... We're held accountable for our stupidity & moral ignorance... Arrogant condescension...suffering from self-hatred which comes along with a terrible nostalgia for the way we imagine things were, the nostalgia of defeat...breeds tyrants... He can hold his liquor, I'll give him that. It's a generational skill,...indicative of a pathology.

I prefer the troubled ocean of war...to the tranquil, putrescent pool of ignominious peace.