Quotes About Defeat

Roddy outgunned Cunningham in the brain department. He hung

I have been defeated, and in the defeat I have won myself. It is a pleasure to die at the hands of Life.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

flailing tail caught Sophie across the back, shattering her gold armor

Anything that you dont overcome will eventualy overtake you.

Once a person gives up, it becomes surprisingly easy to die.

By Sunday evening, a feeling perhaps most reminiscent of election night 2016, desolate and confounded, spread through the mainstream media, the liberal establishment, and among all those who were confident that they had surrounded Donald Trump and left him nowhere to run. This was—and there could hardly be any better illustration—defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win.

He wasn't going to win! Or losing was winning.

As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: it was Reince Priebus's fault, not hers.

Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

our student years are the only happy ones, when the future seems open, when everything seems possible, and after that adulthood and career are only a slow and progressive process of ending up in a rut. That's probably also why the friendships of our youth, the ones we make during our time as students and which are our only true friendships, never survive into adulthood: we avoid seeing them so as not to be confronted by witnesses to our crushed hopes, the evidence of our defeat.

the truth is that men were simply giving up the ghost.

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Our enemies weren't about to give us even an inch.

A failed search, she declared, is a tragic defeat for all concerned, and should be avoided at all costs. "Finding your minister," she said, "takes nine months—a full gestation. By the time they're vetted and voted in, it's a whole year.

Don't let the enemy come in and steal your children. Kill your family. Destroy your joy. According to John 10:10, that's all he comes to do. He's not here to hurt your feelings, make you sad and angry. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Honey, his goal is to kill you. Don't play with him. Fight him. Stand up to him. Defeat him. The victory belongs to God's people!

A major catastrophe that frustrates a central goal of life will either destroy the self, forcing a person to use all his psychic energy to erect a barrier around remaining goals, defending them against further onslaughts of fate; or it will provide a new, more clear, and more urgent goal: to overcome the challenges created by the defeat.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Turns out I was wrong. Truth is I just couldn't do it any more.

Well, if that's me dinner, I've had it.