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Quotes About Defeat

There's no enjoyment to losing money.
~ Paul Allen
No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
These humiliations are the essence of the game.
~ Alistair Cooke
A loss is horrible, and it's even worse in the UFC.
~ Demian Maia
When the heart sinks, people fall.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
~ Imran Khan
Let me see no more of my harsh fate: this useless struggle.
~ Unknown
Did you lose the game? Losing's the same as winning; you know that, don't you?" The
~ Ira Levin
It was funny yet pitiable when I imagined how they gathered whatever white cloth they could find, attached it to a dead twig, and marched forward just to surrender
~ Iris Chang
The Battle of Otumba was fought on July 7, 1520. The victorious Spaniards would never forget it; nor would the Aztecs forget the humiliation of their loss. In the days that followed, the Aztecs watched Cortés withdraw to Tlaxcala. They knew he was not defeated.
~ Unknown
The only thing which can be regarded as properly tragic is resistance, resistance on the part of a man to whatever it is that oppresses him.
~ Isaiah Berlin
What is a lost battle?... It is a battle one believes one has lost. ...
~ Isaiah Berlin
The messianic hope was never the hope of the victors and the rulers. It was always the hope of the defeated and the ground down.31 The hope of the poor is nothing other than the messianic hope.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!
~ J. K. Rowling
Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?
~ J. K. Rowling
To the confusion of our enemies.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
Second Place is just the first place loser.
~ Dale Earnhardt
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
~ Dan Gable
I've lost more times than I've won, and every damn time I got back up! That's all that matters!
~ Dan Slott
The Taliban cannot militarily defeat us—but we can defeat ourselves.
~ Unknown
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
~ Daniel Defoe
Remember, there are plenty of ways to spoil children—by giving them too many things, by rescuing them from every challenge, by never allowing them to deal with defeat and disappointment—but we can never spoil them by giving them too much of our love and attention. That's what the connection
~ Daniel J. Siegel
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
It should be easily admitted that every hero is only as great as the villain that he prevails over.
~ Puneet Issar