Quotes About Defeat

Los antiguos romanos estaban acostumbrados a ser derrotados. Al igual que los mandatarios de la mayor parte de los grandes imperios de la historia, podían perder batalla tras batalla pero aun así ganar la guerra.

As we have been claiming, the global capitalist order cannot be (and to date has not been) defeated with local or national resistance; what we need instead is an even more combative universalism, or what we've been calling universality, in the form of transnational governance bodies such as the EU.

A pessimistic orientation does not seek accommodations with the system.

A phrase from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil came to mind: "Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.

Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

If you learn from defeat, You haven't really lost. -Zig Ziglar

Calling themselves the "United Nations," in Washington twenty-six countries at war with one or all of the Axis nations—including the United States, Britain and its dominions, China, the European governments-in-exile, and the Soviet Union—pledged to fight and defeat "the . . . forces of conquest

Death. Fire. Snow. Failure.

To defeat your adversary and bury him is one thing. To dress him in a jester's costume and have him perform for you is another, more crushing blow. He survives to give witness to his own powerlessness."16 This is what both Chaplin and Brooks did to Hitler.

To try to defeat an irrational supposition—especially when it is firmly held by its proponents—with a rational explanation is virtually impossible.

go deep means to contact the hidden blueprint of intelligence and change it—only then can visualization of fighting cancer, for example, be strong enough to defeat the disease. But most people cannot do that; their thought power is too weak to trigger the appropriate mechanisms.

you practice lifelong wellness, beginning as early as childhood, the many threats that attack us from middle age onward can be defeated—the secret is to act before any sign of threat appears. This is known as "incremental medicine

If you practice lifelong wellness, beginning as early as childhood, the many threats that attack us from middle age onward can be defeated—the secret is to act before any sign of threat appears.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

There are no winners in real games.

El país siempre pierde. Los mexicanos siempre se tiran al vacío desde el Castillo de Chapultepec y no logran salir de allí. Por ello es mejor callar. Es mejor ignorar. Es mejor emigrar.

Gary never got tired of rubbing it in. Derek had beaten him on a test only once,

There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. Serpine will have won only when there is no one left to stand against him. Until then, there is only the struggle, because tides do what tides do–they turn.

He looked at her. 'In order to finish, I'll have to have defeated six Infected, Dusk, and Vengeous himself.' Yeah. So?' The Infected I can manage.' She frowned. 'And Vengeous? I mean, you can beat him, right?' Well,' he said, "I can certainly try. And trying is half the battle.' What's the other half?' He shrugged. 'Hitting him more times than he hits me.

That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside." "Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.