Quotes About Defeat

Ranger Creed, particularly the fifth stanza, which begins: "Energetically will I meet the enemies of my country. I shall defeat them on the field of battle for I am better trained and will fight with all my might. Surrender is not a Ranger word.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

WHAT, WILL THE star which is bent on driving me to despair allow me no time to breathe? Am I to see, through their mutual understanding, my watchful care and my wisdom defeated one after another? Must I, in my mature age, become the dupe of a simple girl and a scatter-brained young fellow?

That night, my heart softened around Wills's autism. Clearly, Katherine had been right. I couldn't isolate him. As painful as it was to watch him paralyzed with fright, I knew that he was happier when he tried. Not showing up was admitting defeat. Admitting that he couldn't do it. Admitting that the autism was bigger than him.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

a "brave new world of affluent depravity."44 Genovese sees it as ironic that the defeat of the South, of slav- ery, opened the doors to an imperialism that imposed "unprec- edented misery and mass slaughter on the world.

True knowledge comes from the upward path which leads to the eternal Fire; error, defeat and death result from following the lower path of worldly attachment.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.

I never wanted to lose, never thought I would, but the thing that matters is how you lose. I'm not crying. My friends should not cry.

It takes pride and a tiger's drive to build up the confidence, the ego, the power to defeat an opponent in the ring. It

As for me, I know no fighter can survive if he feels sorry for himself when he's defeated. When I accept a fight, I accept the consequences. I do everything to make the fight come out my way, but if I'm defeated I have to get up and come back again, no matter how humiliating the loss.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

As for the methods of survival, feel free to use your divine weapons to defeat the enemy.

Strong people don't have time to hate what is within their reach. It is only the weak-minded who recognize their defeat and then turn to hatred as the only solution to feed their egos.

The worst defeat lies in acknowledging that you have been defeated.

This is how peace works, one has to admit defeat or bow before reason. Otherwise, silence will find no room to dwell in.

Death is the last weapon of the tyrant, and the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been defeated. Resurrection is not the redescription of death; it is its overthrow and, with that, the overthrow of those whose power depends on it.

If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle.

Sports provide us with dangerous metaphors. A sporting contest is a contest: a game of winners and losers.

Saul the zealot had expected a Messiah to defeat the pagan hordes. Paul the Apostle believed that the Messiah had defeated the dark powers that stood behind all evil.