Quotes About Defeat

Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. You will find that is so, sir.

Sir Lyonel knew that this sleeping knight would charge to his known defeat with neither hesitation nor despair and finally would accept his death with courtesy and grace as though it were a prize. And suddenly Sir Lyonel knew why Lancelot would gallop down the centuries, spear in rest, gathering men's hearts on his lance head like tilting rings. He chose his side and it was Lancelot's. He brushed a dungfly from the sleeping face.

he felt himself hopelessly outnumbered.

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.

All through the day, there are two voices that compete for your attention - the voice of faith and the voice of defeat. Tune into the voice of faith because it is the voice of victory!

I don't think there's any danger of my ever becoming complacent about losing. I always hated to lose, regardless of what it was, even when the family was playing Yahtzee.

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

You can't order me away, you pissant human--" "I just did." Kas swept past him...

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

People cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat.

Fear-filled words will defeat you, but faith-filled words will put you over!

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

I'll rid the world of each one of you, " he whispered. "Every single one…

Life is similar to a boxing ring, you are declared a loser not when you fall but when you refuse to stand up...

A sad fact in life is that you cannot have winners without losers, no matter what you do; it's up to you to make out which one you are.

Never get discouraged when things go beyond your expectation. Always remember that the greatest glory in life is not winning, but rising every time we fall.