Quotes About Defeat

Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.

No hope no action.

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.

George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.

I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.

I hope Marcus (giggle) is there. Maybe he can defeat the evil Cullens with his mighty battle cry, "I can see relationships!!!

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity

I guess we'll just sit around here and casually die, then.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.