Quotes About Defeat

He wanted his enemies proud and strong, so that he could cast them further down in his vengeance.

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

To win the battle for our minds, we must engage, because there is no other way for us to defeat evil. The days of being neutral must be over.

This is how it ends with everyone. You fall—you don't get back up.

There are not enough Indians in the world to beat the Seventh Cavalry. —GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The story of Cassilly Adams's painting Custer's Last Fight, approaches the drama of the historic moment it depicts and is something I've wanted to write about for some time.

This is how it will defeat you, by distracting you - it is like life, you can live it or be continually distracted until you are surprised to discover that like smoke from a dead fire, it is gone.

I look up at the clear and beautiful gray eyes, at the winning smile of youthful invincibility, at someone far more courageous and determined than I, and sometimes I make it through the entire story. But most of the time, I don't.

The central control center of the soul is the mind. Therefore, the mind is the battlefield and will determine whether or not we have victory or defeat in our Christian lives. This is why the Bible instructs us to renew our minds with God's Word. The Word keeps us in God's perfect will for our lives.

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

perché esistono dei mostri che nessuno può vincere in un combattimento faccia a faccia.

Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

When you think something's out of reach, you back off and say you didn't want it anyway.

flusher handle and all he managed to do was fall back and flush the stupid toilet.

Defeat is always devastating. But it is never more crushing than when it comes after you believe you have won.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Losing is hard on all of us regardless of rookie or veteran.

You play well, you feel comfortable, then you lose via a deflection or an individual mistake and you feel robbed.

There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

Mike Tyson is one of those guys that for most of his career and I'm sure, he decided he was ready to quit long before he got beat. Had he just quit when he wanted to, he probably would've never gotten beat. He's just a beast. I'm a huge Mike Tyson fan. You're talking about a vicious son of a gun.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.