Quotes About Defeat

The message was: disorder always won in the end. The idea that man could order the world to his own design was the most pitiful fairy tale ever told.

I knew that successful politicians cannot bear to accept defeat within themselves. A human being cannot stand up to a double defeat. That is the secret of their continuous attempt to rise to power. They draw a feeling of supremacy from their power over others. It makes them feel victorious rather than defeated. It hides how essentially hollow they are inside, despite the impression of greatness they try to spread around them, which is all they really care for.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. - Jósef Pi?sudski

When depression controls the mind, its power increases when the mind remains inactive. It is like a computer virus spreading to occupy unused processing space. You can fight it by keeping busy. There are other ways to fight it: exercising releases endorphins to counter it, or manufactured drugs can be used. Those who suffer learn many such techniques to defeat it, or they go under.

It's hard enough losing with out the confusion of knowing I tried.

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death

The Hythe Gazette had reported the story as early as 6 September: 'All idea of invasion is now at an end.

The news could hardly have been worse. The fall of Ulm was a disaster of epic proportions

Austrian troops had surrendered in tens of thousands, laying down their arms without a struggle.

The enemy hauled our colours down and the slaughter ceased entirely after a while.

Once the British were defeated, there would be peace again – on Napoleon's terms.

the French and Spanish should have closed their line,

He turned away, unable to watch as Fournier lowered the colours

To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose.

in rock'n'roll it wasn't the winners but the losers who made for the most compelling stories.

To meet the depths of defeat is to be better acquainted with courage.

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.

Sólo de causas perdidas se puede ser partidario irrestricto.

Someone who has been defeated should not console himself with the possible retaliations of history, but with the patent excellence of his cause.

Let us be careful not to call accepting what degrades us without any resistance "accepting life".

when you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…

He has shamed me, and he'll kill me, but he shan't humble me.

suddenly enlightenment, blinding and dazing as the light which smote Saul on the road to Damascus, burst upon her. Negation and disbelief would never cure the sickness of this world. You could never defeat evil by retreating from it. It must be faced and fought and overcome. Action, not futile sorrow, was what was needed.