Quotes About Defeat

The young woman stood on the deck of the log cabin, looking into the tear-filled eyes of the man she loved. The normal mixture of mischievous charm and boyish confidence was gone. In its place lay emptiness and defeat. All because of her.

True peace cannot be obtained through force, it can only be contained. Peace requires understanding, defeat can create bitter hearts and minds wanting to seek revenge.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

What does slay mean?" "… It means Daddy poked the dragon very hard until it fell over and didn't get up again.

Well, THAT was not going to stand. NO, SIR. THIS time, there would MOST DEFINITELY BE CONSEQUENCES, FROG.

I can talk!" she shouted. "I'm free! Let's go kill that evil son of a slug!

I'm tired of fighting … I can't fight any more." Those were his last words.

I love [chess]. Apart from anything else, it is agreeable to my sentiments as a citizen of a republic, since it always ends with the discomfiture of a king.

Trump knows how to be the loser's idea of a winner.

If she could only give up, relax, and live in the perfect knowledge that there was no hope.

And the truth was that in life on earth there was no such thing as happiness without pain, victory without defeat. There were joy and enchantment and beauty to be garnered on the path, but at all times, too, there were burdens to be borne.

Why not simply surrender to one's doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?

You're the enemy. You're the one who's going to defeat yourself.

Borges, who said, "Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve.

I find everything demoralizing,' Dennis said.

She was vanquished, undone, and humiliated that she had moaned.

But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.

Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.

only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose ........

Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don't be nasty. Find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: "What a pointless existence." Whether you like it or not, I know how to defeat you. You're wasting your time.