Quotes About Defeat

La derrota tiene una dignidad que la ruidosa victoria no merece

Pensé: «Me satisface la derrota, porque es un fin y yo estoy muy cansado».

I am pleased with defeat because it has occurred, because it is irrevocably united to all those events which are, which were, and which will be, because to censure or to deplore a single real occurrence is to blaspheme the universe.

sono certo, certissimo, che un uomo che legge poesia si fa sconfiggere meno facilmente di uno che non la legge.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons.

History is always personal—never more so than for those who find theirs is written by the enemy. It strips the defeated and the displaced of their dignity. It is a posthumous insult.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

For millions of people, she could hear him say with thattremulousintensity of his, moving is a moment of ruin and failure, a defeat that is no longer avoidable, a desperate flight, going from bad to worse, from home to homelessness, from citizen to refugee, from living a tolerable or even contented life to vile horror.

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact.

When you win, you often lose, that's just the fact.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Men of my generation," wrote the French novelist Albert Camus, "have had Spain in our hearts. . . . It was there that they learned . . . that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, and that there are times when courage is not rewarded.

Yesterday's triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten.

Particularly in the case of this war, one must never forget that if we lose it, we lose everything.

N?u ngÆ°Æ¡i th?ng ngÆ°Æ¡i không c?n gi?i thích, nhÆ°ng n?u ngÆ°Æ¡i thua ngÆ°Æ¡i cÅ©ng không có quy?n gi?i thích.

O es que las guerras perdidas deben ocasionar fatalmente la ruina de los pueblos que las pierden? Brevemente se podría responder que esto es posible siempre que la derrota militar testifique la corrupción moral de un pueblo, su cobardía, su falta de carácter, en fin, su condición de indignidad. No siendo así, la derrota militar impulsará más bien a un futuro de mayor resurgimiento, en lugar de ser la lápida de la existencia nacional.

Los pecados contra la sangre y la raza constituyen el pecado original de este mundo y el ocaso de una humanidad vencida.

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

I have had my share of flops and it's very discouraging. It's pathetic to be on that side.

There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.

It's obviously very tough for any team to lose on penalties.