Quotes About Defeat

The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will always defeat defensive actions by people who have given up.

More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.

There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

….it was a brave man's fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

Because it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.

Failure too is a form of death.

Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

Death, thou shalt die.

Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain

One last look at Athena, and then let the disgrace be complete.

Yes, yes, yes, he felt uncontrollable tenderness for his own shit-filled life. And a laughable hunger for more. More defeat! More disappointment! More deceit! More loneliness! More arthritis! More missionaries! God willing, more cunt! More disastrous entanglement in everything. For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the day after that everybody seemed to understand everything, and the radio commentators and the news columnists made it sound as if Roosevelt's defeat had been preordained.