Quotes About Defeat

The Guises had played their poker game and lost.

A set-piece battle would almost inevitably end in a crushing defeat for the Scots.

James V felt a deep psychological blow. He had been militarily and personally humiliated

The result was a crushing defeat for Mary. The battle got off to a disastrous start.

All seemed to be over when Bothwell's mainmast was shot away by a cannonball

cut to pieces at Flodden Field by the father of the very same English commander.

I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.

His resolve was blown as quickly as the rest of him.

IS THIS COUNTRY JUST SO HUGE THAT IT NEEDS TO OVERSIMPLIFY EVERYTHING? LOOK AT THE WAR: EITHER WE HAVE A STRATEGY TO 'WIN' IT, WHICH MAKES US-IN THE WORLD'S VIEW-MURDERERS; OR ELSE WE ARE DYING, WITHOUT FIGHTING TO WIN. LOOK AT WHAT WE CALL 'FOREIGN POLICY': OUR 'FOREIGN POLICY' IS A EUPHEMISM FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND OUR PUBLIC RELATIONS GET WORSE AND WORSE. WE'RE BEING DEFEATED AND WE'RE NOT GOOD LOSERS.

If you're not happy, the jerks win.

Football's the kind of game where, if your team's doing really badly, it gets you into the mode of having a laugh at losing. You can actually enjoy looking forward to the next tragic defeat. And there's nothing else that gives me that ability. It serves an absolutely brilliant, beautiful purpose. It's the theater of emotions, not dreams.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves.

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.