Quotes About Defeat

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Second place is just the first place loser.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

The reality is, sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose, you're never too big to lose, you're never too smart to lose, it happens.

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

I failed so therefore I succeed.

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.

The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

A giggler always wins his/her enemies.

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.

The best way to compete is to get defeat.

Sometimes you need to loose in order to win.

Contemplative prayer is a method of exposing and disengaging from the ordinary obstacles to our awareness of God's presence with us. This prayer is not an end, but a beginning. It's easy to give in to the temptation to chase after the enemy every time he shows himself; sometimes it's the right thing to do. There is a better way to defeat him—fix our eyes and our hearts steadfastly on Jesus. His light will drive out the darkness.

I lived to learn that in the world of sport all men win alike, but lose differently;

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.