Quotes About Defeat

Sometimes life seemed to be a machine designed to crush dreams as effectively as a junkyard hydraulic press crumpled cars into compact cubes.

The excessive passion of your yearning could blind you to the mistakes you made, so that in the end, you were defeated by the sheer power of your need.

Sanatta kazanan bizler doÄŸada her zaman maÄŸlubuz.

The Iraqi and Afghan wars have not 'ended.' Only America's involvement has 'ended.' … When a country leaves a war before achieving victory it is not called leaving. It is called defeat. … When the decent leave, the indecent win.

There's nay shame to ha' fallen in battle, mo caraidh, he said softly. The greatest of warriors may be overcome.

There was a sudden whoosh from above, followed immediately by a blur before my eyes and a dull thud. Captain Randall was on the ground at my feet, under a heaving mass that looked like a bundle of old plaid rags. A brown, rocklike fist rose out of the mass and descended with considerable force, meeting decisively with some bony protuberance, by the sound of the resultant crack. The Captain's struggling legs, shiny in tall brown boots, relaxed quite suddenly. I

bent forward, hugging his knees. 'Then I could see, too. The English, wriggling over the ground like maggots in meat, and the men behind me. George McClure came up with me, and Wallace and Ross on the other side, and we were walkin' still, one pace at a time, but faster and faster, seein' the sassenaches breaking before us.' There was a dull boom off to the right;

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath He removed like a tree.

The Governor glared at him for a moment, lips pressed tight, but then his shoulders sagged in defeat. "I will," he said shortly. "But I should regard it as a great personal favor if you would endeavor not to be captured.

I want to beat DC. I want to avenge my loss.

At the end of the day, you have 82 games. You're going to win some division games, and you're going to lose some division games.

There are games that you completely dominate and suddenly you're behind and you ask yourself how that's possible.

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

You can't keep losing and say nothing in the dressing room.

I think that the politicians who were beaten by Donald Trump and then endorsed him, that's something that they will carry and should carry, for the duration of their career.

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

I was embarrassing against Spinks.

When you lose 4-1, it's a bit embarrassing.

I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control.

That's not always a nice feeling when you've given everything, and it's not enough - it's an empty feeling.

It's not the end of the world if I lose. I try to keep it all in perspective.

I don't like losing at anything, but it's not the end of the world if you beat me.

Greetings and death to our enemies.

Enemies are dispirited when they see you happy. They know their purpose can be thwarted.