Quotes About Defeat

Quizá el mejor resumen de lo que la chinaca significó en aquellos años terribles para la república de 1864 y 1865 esté en la frase de Eduardo Ruiz que caracteriza a una fuerza inmune a la derrota: "México perdiendo gana, si no es hoy será mañana".

He felt empty, broken, defeated.

He'd lost a bet with his head cook Rico about last week's Broncos game, and he'd had to shave it off. Bastard.

And just as a single victory can redeem many a defeat, so a single defeat can devalue or even eradicate a long string of successes.

according to the psychoanalyst Ruben Find, one of the world's greatest players, players are of two antithetical types. One is the hero, who has no religion, no reason for being, other than chess. His every satisfaction and every pleasure is drawn from the board and the viories it brings him; conversely, his every pain and fear of death is embodied in his defeats

E, d'altra parte, così come una sola vittoria può riscattarci da molte sconfitte, è pur vero che una sola sconfitta deprezza, se non cancella del tutto, anche una lunghissima serie di successi.

The defeated go down in history and disappear, and their stories die with them.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.

You don't want me as your mate, Mercy, so why are you miffed that my wolf finally admitted defeat?

Wars are lost by thinking the impossible won't happen.

I believe it is the inability of beginning writers to achieve at least a certain degree of detachment from their writing that defeats so many of them before they even get started. Without this distancing, any criticism of your writing will seem devastating, even incapacitating, whereas with the proper amount of detachment it will seem merely cruel and unusual punishment.

But unlike your shadow, it's deadset on ruining your life!

A team that is not focused on results ... • Stagnates/fails to grow • Rarely defeats competitors • Loses achievement-oriented employees

There came a point when Harry stopped trying to fight back, when the blows from the monster were too strong, too many, too fast, when he began begging the monster to stop.

I won the only duel I ever lost.

Increíble -dijo Wilem, maravillado-. El todopoderoso Kvothe, vencido por una mujer.

Gané el único duelo que he perdido.

he was often heard to say, 'I won the only duel I ever lost.

He beat you." And as I spoke the words I felt a terrible anger come together inside me. It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold.

But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.