Quotes About Defeat

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Finally, it is worth mentioning, in the interest of thoroughness, that the defeat exasperated the conflict between generations. For four years the combatants of 1914 reproached those of 1940 for having lost the war, and those of 1940, in reply, accused their elders of having lost the peace.

At the same time, I learned that you always lose. Only the rascals think they win.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

I am deeply concerned for the safety of our people brought by a lack of a comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIL.

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

Even for defeating extremists, you need more than a military strategy.

The strategy of any party would be to see how best it can defeat the party in power.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.

I tell myself, 'You're great, you're powerful, you're strong. You're the greatest, most powerful, strongest fighter in the world.' I acknowledge my greatness. I bow down before my greatness. I inflate myself like that, and then I pop the balloon in a single sentence by saying: You can be beaten.

When the guards noticed my chessboard, they all wanted to play me. And when they started to play me, they always won. The strongest among the guards taught me how to control the center. After that, the guards had no chance to defeat me.

I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.

I always say when the opponent was better.

When you're leading 4-1, the opponent has nothing to lose.

Even after defeating India, I still have the highest respect for them as opponents.

I've lost to some great opponents, and in some I have been robbed.

You can lose to any team and then beat your top opponents and still not be in the top four.

I want to beat all the opponents who have beaten me before.

I don't think it's a good M.O. to disrespect your opponents, and maybe that's why the teams that disrespected me and my team lost to us.

That's how tennis is sometimes: You can have good days, you can have bad days, your opponents can play really well.

Each match has a predetermined outcome. But it doesn't always turn out that way. A lot of tempers get very heated in the ring.