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Quotes About Defeat

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
~ Yann Martel
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
~ Yann Martel
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
~ Yann Martel
fear...is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life...you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
~ Yann Martel
I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. it begins in your mind, always.
~ Yann Martel
You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
~ Yann Martel
Only fear can defeat life.
~ Yann Martel
if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
~ Yann Martel
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease.
~ Yann Martel
So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
~ Yann Martel
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
~ Yann Martel
So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
~ Yann Martel
attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
~ Yann Martel
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins with your mind, always.
~ Yann Martel
Ejemplo clásico:Steve Prefontaine.Pre aceleró demasiado rápido dos veces en la misma carrera en las olimpiadas de 1972;las dos veces lo alcanzaron. Llegado el último tramo, Pre no había guardado combustible y cayó hasta el cuarto puesto, lo que hizo que se quedase sin medalla. Esa derrota histórica grabó a fuego la lección: nadie pierde el puesto de perseguidor si no se ve obligado a ello. A menos que seas tonto o imprudente, o a menos que seas Gari Kasparov. En
~ Christopher McDougall
The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.
~ Christopher Paolini
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
~ Christy Mathewson
Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
All of us are either trying to work and be good enough to please God, or we are believing and trusting God to do for us what we can't do for ourselves. At each moment of our lives we find ourselves on one road or the other. If we are still trying to please God through being good enough, defeat and frustration will be our lot. If we have trusted in God's grace to transform us and form Christ within us, we will enjoy life and peace. I
~ Chuck Smith
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.
~ Chuck Tanner
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.
~ Chuck Tanner
Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Han wasn't used to sharing territory with an enemy. You drove him out, or he drove you out. You hushed him or he hushed you, and life went on. For one of you.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.
~ Cinda Williams Chima