Quotes About Defeat

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams. -From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin

Actually, I figured out how to lose bloody ages ago. -Mat

He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

A wise man tried to avoid battles he would not only lose, but look foolish losing.

Yamada might be a good general—Mat did not know—but he had never stood a chance against Riselle and that marvelous bosom.

when she smiled, it seemed the sun might hide its head in defeat.

The Dark One," Lan said, "cannot be defeated without chancing risks. But we are alive at this moment, and before us is the hope of remaining alive. Do not surrender before you are beaten.

Maighdin knows she has to be careful," she said in a firm voice. "She will be here soon, Alliandre." "And if she is caught?" "She won't be!" Faile said sharply. If she was. . . . No. She had to think of victory, not defeat. Faint hearts never won. (Crossroads of Twilight, The Wheel of Time series, book 10 by Robert Jordan)

The very first thing Elaida had ever Foretold, while still an Accepted—and had known enough even then to keep to herself—was that the Royal line of Andor would be the key to defeating the Dark One in the Last Battle.

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams

Failure inspires winners & defeats losers.

Those who had benefited from the false stories of Altaussee had been working behind the scenes to defeat the petition. Without

Now we've a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.

Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people—what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by the mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.

He thought with all these men dead fighting war, it must be that war was winning.

He thought with all these men dead fighting war, it must be that war was winning. ~ 'Coal Black Horse

there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.

The man who can fight to heaven's own height is the man who can fight when he's losing.

You see the difficulty of believing in a divine force that determines all events? Where is the element of choice that makes suffering meaningful? To force you into a sin, and then to require you to endure defeat as atonement, seems to me an empty exercise.

Failure inspires winners. Failure defeats losers.

If you really want to learn the attitude of how to handle risk, losing, and failure, go to San Antonio and visit the Alamo. The Alamo is a great story of brave people who chose to fight, knowing there was no hope of success. They chose to die instead of surrendering. It's an inspiring story worthy of study. Nonetheless, it's still a tragic military defeat. They got their butts kicked. So how do Texans handle failure? They still shout, 'Remember the Alamo!

Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers.

Expecting to win 100 percent of the time and never failing is a loser's reality.