Quotes About Defeat

A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.

Nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que .

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que 'la única cosa que nos queda frente a esa ineludible derrote que se llama vida es intentar comprenderla'.

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que 'la única cosa que nos queda frente a esa ineludible derrota que se llama vida es intentar comprenderla'.

The pervasive attitude of fatalism among Indians of all classes was yet another factor affecting the spirit of Indian armies—victory and defeat were not in their hands, they believed; whatever was destined to happen would happen. This

There can be glory in failure and despair in success.

Accepting the eventual certainty of defeat in turn liberates you to take real joy in any small victory, that one good kick.

Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of their defeat to benefit themselves.

excellence and, 'if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat'.

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers. Scripps: No. Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

You are…you are…" The merchant tried to control himself. "You have nothing. You are nothing!

Well, refusing to continue to fight to the death (of your relationship) is hardly surrendering. Rather, if defeating your partner is also self-defeating, then stopping the fight is both showing the courage to do what is needed to survive and the courage to engage in self-preservation without harming your partner.

As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.

Brown, in retrospect, was a serious disappointment, but if we can learn the lessons it did not intend to teach, it will not go down as a defeat.

There are two kinds of victory in this world,' said the storyteller-sage, 'Vijaya and Jaya. Vijaya is material victory, where there is a loser. Jaya is spiritual victory, where there are no losers. In

right. It's hopeless

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

To talk of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat is not really heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future. The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live. It is only from this question, with its responsibility towards history, that fruitful solutions can come, even if for the time being they are very humiliating.

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.