Quotes About Defeat

The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!

We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.

History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

It's so damned humiliating.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

Only the vanquished remember history.

Im sick of making bloody history.

I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

Defeating ISIS. If we do not defeat them abroad, we will be facing more and more of a threat at home. This does not require an occupation or an enduring ground operation.

I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.