Quotes About Defeat

When you lose you lose forever, an when you win it only lasts a second or two.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

overwhelmed the Scots. The Prince's lack of skill as a commander

You had to deal with a situation you did not want. Once you are defeated, you have to do what you are told.

Success is not forever, and failure's not fatal.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Everyone says what they're supposed to, the usual clichés like "She's a fighter." Yeah, Danny thinks. There are two fighters in any fight, and one of them loses.

May knew John had a very bad tendency, when things got unusually difficult, to sink with an almost sensuous pleasure into a warm bath of despair. Once you've handed the reins over to despair, to mix a metaphor just a teeny bit, your job is done. You don't have to sweat it any more, you've taken yourself out of the game. Despair is the bench, and you are warming it.

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

He sighs a defeated kind of sigh that hurts my heart. "Goddamn it, Kavinsky." "I'm sorry. I like you, too, John, I really do. I wish . . . I wish we got to go to that eighth grade formal." And then John Ambrose McClaren says one last thing, a thing that makes my heart swell. "I don't think it was our time then. I guess it isn't now, either." John looks over at me, his gaze steady. "But one day maybe it will be.

One man against a corrupt system and I knew I could win! And Hindsight would like to point out I wasn't even on the really hard drugs yet. I'd

Losing is the great American sin.

every warrior must face defeat and that defeat does not define the warrior any more than words define the heart of a lion.

Too often we say we are "defeated" by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient!

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.

Replace that old picture of defeat and failure with a new picture of victory and success.

The Rock knew his wrestling career was over when he looked across the ring and saw his opponent... THE PAPER.

We thought that not only would Germany come out of the war defeated, but Russia too. Things have turned out rather differently. In today's set-up we Poles are divided into two categories: those who have betrayed the freedom of Poland and those who do not wish to do so. The first wish to submit to Russia, we do not. They want Communism, we do not. They want to destroy us, we must destroy them. A battle is going on between us, a battle that has only just started.