Quotes About Defeat

How can I lose to such an idiot?

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

You gave up because everything stopped being easy. Just because you couldn't conquer this thing like you always did.

Basta de navegar en el olvido. Basta de bendecirnos en la lluvia. Basta de no ser nadie. Basta de que el placer nos desconozca. Basta de convivir con la derrota. Basta, carajo.

cuando uno se deja vencer, se va deformando, se va convirtiendo en una grosera parodia de sí mismo.

La experiencia me ha enseñado que uno de los métodos más eficaces para derrotar a un rival en el vacilante corazón de una mujer, es elogiar sin restricciones a ese mismo rival, es volverse tan comprensivo, tan noble y tolerante, que uno mismo se sienta conmovido.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Twee jaar later, in die winter van 1995, het sy die eindfluitjie vir haar huwelik hoor blaas. Alles was verby, daar is nie eens meer beseringstyd oor nie. Niemand het die stryd gewen nie, albei kante het verloor. Daar kon nie 'n wenner in hierdie kragmeting wees nie.

you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

How could he face his wife as a loser?

People who were abused as children tend to get angry and strike out at the world. People who were neglected tend to feel defeated and withdraw from the world. People who were not given guidance tend to lack confidence and self-reliance. Each pathway leads to different forms of self-defeat.

She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

Unresolved anger is singled out as a sin that gives the devil an opportunity to derail and defeat us. Demons seize upon it to nurture bitterness and resentment, which wreak havoc in our souls.

As 1 John 4:4 states, "Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world." Second Chronicles 20:15 reminds us, "The battle is not yours but God's." Our Commander in Chief has won the war. Christ defeated the enemy at the cross. We fight a defeated foe. Power comes from the Lord, not our own ingenuity or methods. Of course, we are not inactive. Scripture commands us to stand and resist the enemy.

I could fall And there's nothin' else I can do

The war is lost," Milley said. "The enemy is in control in Kabul."

Acceptance was not in my nature. Even as a young man it seemed to me that everywhere the world conspired against the heart, and though I knew the heart would lose, I couldn't bear to call it right.

If you lose your best cornerback and punter, I'd say that's a double loss.

Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now