Quotes About Defeat

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Failure has gone to his head.

if they watched the soldiers and opposed them everywhere, the whites could do nothing.

To be defeated by superior numbers, that was only physical. To give up your spirit, that truly would be death. He

Our walk is for the fulfillment of God's purpose, our living is for the satisfaction of Christ, and our fighting is for the defeat of God's enemy.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

When the inhabitants of a free city have overcome the enemy in the field, it is not easy to express the pleasure which they feel in putting their opponents to flight, as well as in pursuing and making havoc of them.

Competitive sports keeps alive in all of us a spirit of vitality and enterprise. It teaches the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid. To be proud and unbending in defeat, yet humble and gentle in victory. To master ourselves before we attempt to master others. To learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep, and it gives a predominance of courage over timidity.

The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition

The great virtue of defeat, once accepted, is that it at least allows one to rest.

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

Finished off and washed up before your time- But you will never run a pub. You will never own a shop- Instead, you will have your revenge- That is how you shall live- In place of a life, revenge.

Leeds United had won but I didn't care. I had lost.

Because there is no fucking consolation- No consolation for not winning- That's irreplaceable.

There will always be times when we get beaten, said Bill Shankly. There will always be times when we lose. But the important thing is what we take away from that beating, what we learn when we lose. Because we'll always learn more from a loss than a win. So remember that and learn that, lads.

One day they won. The next day they lost.

But it's over. It's over and you know it- No League Championships. No FA Cups. No European Cups- The roar and the whistle. The applause and the adoration- Finished forever. Second best. Forever.

Losers break the rules. There's no point in obeying them because if you obey the unwritten rules of civility, you're going to lose anyway. So why not just do what you can?' - Zachary Karabell

We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion!