Quotes About Defeat

Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well.

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

It's one thing to go into a fight knowing you'll probably lose. Quite another to be told that to win, you must offer up your throat to be slit.

Deberás ser fuerte y tener fe en ti mismo. Nunca admitas la derrota, aunque te parezca inevitable.

Because, Leonard said, light overcomes darkness. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe you can be defeated.

But something about his inability to give in, to admit defeat, or to at least acknowledge the incredible power of the technology at Mae's command Ã¢â'¬Â¦ she knew she couldn't give up until she had received some sense of his acquiescence.

I gave up on everything in my life, including escaping my misery through my school-work. Upon

Qui-gon shook his head. 'No,' he said firmly. 'I'm not testing you, Obi-wan. Life tests you! Every day it brings you new chances for triumph or defeat. And if you pass the test, it doesn't make you a Jedi. It makes you human.

A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin. And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.

He had walked away, head down, feet shuffling, looking very much like a young man who had lost everything of value in his life.

every failure is also a victory.

As everything becomes bad in you, all the good goes out of the world like air out of a big broken balloon.

and I emerge so icky and befouled and cross-eyed from the guy's right hook that I blow what should have been a very legitimate shot at the title in the Men's Best Legs Contest, in which I end up placing third but am told later I would have won the whole thing except for the scowl, swollen and strabismic right eye, and askew swimcap that formed a contextual backdrop too downright goofy to let the full force of my gams' shapeliness come through to the judges.

The formulaic inexorability of these villains' defeat does give the climaxes an oddly soothing, ritualistic quality, and it makes the villains martyrs in a way, sacrifices to our desire for black-and-white morality and comfortable judgment...

All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them. from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

Therein, ye gods, ye make the weak most strong; Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat. Nor stony wall, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit: But life being weary of these worldly bars Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!

Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless

Then with the losers let it sympathize, for nothing can seem foul to those that win.

You think you have won, but you haven't. Although I can't get the coon, neither can you live, because I have cut off your breath of life.