Quotes About Defeat

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

Determination is frequently found in failure, but it is never found in defeat.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

To lose is not always failure.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

An existence transfigured by failure.

There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.

How are the mighty fallen!