Quotes About Defeat

Reluctance to go for the jugular and willingness to accept defeat can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you are reluctant to fight, you are inevitably headed toward defeat when the other side is relentless and despises you. It is only for those who persist in the battle and never let up that the possibility of changing the result comes into view. In

A man who hides himself, confesses as evidently the superiority of his enemy, as another who fairly delivers his arms.

When a form of government is legitimately constituted," Rosa now wrote, "even though it may initially have been defective or even questionable in various ways Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is one's duty to support it, for public order or the common good requires it. Nor is it permitted to either individuals or to parties to plot to defeat it or supplant it or change it with unjust means."22

True soldiers are not recognized by their victories, but after their defeats.' His

Several weeks later, President Eisenhower complained to reporters that Nixon had lost simply because of a "couple of phone calls.

Shed stallion stands in surf gazing out to sea. So large. So noble. Once so powerful. Now completely defeated and alone.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Anyone who thinks that God wins or loses games has to have an awfully weak mind.

He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.

Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

A winner smiles and a looser cries. The God looks at them and says, 'Sorry, guys!

The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that obliterates both.

Let me not fear defeat or death, Let me not fear being forgotten, Let my defiance sustain my soul, Let it remain with me ever after.Poem: Prayer to the God of Rebellion, in 'Chameleon Lights

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.