Quotes About Defeat

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

Laugh so hard that even sorrow smiles at you. Live life so well that even death loves to see you live. And fight so hard that even fate accepts it's defeat.

The majority of Americans regarded us with ambivalence if not outright distaste, we being living reminders of their stinging defeat. We threatened the sanctity and symmetry of a white and black America whose yin and yang racial politics left no room for any other color, particularly that of pathetic little yellow-skinned people pickpocketing the American purse.

To be anti-American only makes you a reactionary. In our case, having defeated the Americans, we no longer defined ourselves as anti-American. We are simply one hundred percent Vietnamese.

When it came to learning the worst habits of our French masters and their American replacements, we quickly proved ourselves the best. We, too, could abuse grand ideals! Having liberated ourselves in the name of independence and freedom—I was so tired of saying these words!—we then deprived our defeated brethren of the same.

Disappointment is stronger than a thousand of you.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

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

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

It was five forty-nine on the evening of 5 May 1821, and Napoleon was not quite fifty-two years old.

There is but one safety to the vanquished—to hope not safety.

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...

Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

My ego has been trampled on more times than an old cigarette butt in the gutter

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

I'd had two fights in the past couple of hours; won one, lost one (to a bird)

I'd say she pretty much handed you your balls in a paper bag,

In life the loser's score is always zero.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look.We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeatedMay say Alas but cannot help or pardon.

The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look. We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.