Quotes About Defeat

It is defeat that strips you bare and forces you to see your truest self. Success allows you to maintain the illusion of who you are. It is in failure that you come to know yourself best. When you face defeat, all you're left with us yourself. It is then you will face your greatest battle.

Whether I would survive a defeat lies in God's hands. The lot of the vanquished is heavy. I'm happy in my own conscience that I've done all I can for victory and have not spared myself.

For Reuter, it was the last act of the Great War and something which reduced, if it did not remove, the shame of defeat and surrender. The message, for those who chose to think about it, was that Germany was down but not out - defeated but not reconciled.

To what extent was this David Cameron's fault? It's hard to think of a more complete definition of political failure than an essentially pro-EU Prime Minister who plots to defeat his enemies on the right, and by doing so ejects his country from the EU by mistake,

I put the story aside and added it to the growing list of things I was inadequate at or incapable of doing.

The machines won, sister. We're just in denial.

Grossly to oversimplify the contributions made by the three leading members of the Grand Alliance in the Second World War, if Britain had provided the time and Russia the blood necessary to defeat the Axis, it was America that produced the weapons.

It was felt that to admit defeat at the hands of a Muslim power would weaken the British Empire, which ruled over tens of millions of Muslims Ã¢â'¬â€œ and in India particularly prestige was more important than sheer military power.

Nations which went down fighting rose again, but those which tamely surrendered were finished.

Continuing high unemployment, the legacy of the General Strike and the Trade Disputes Act, and a long period in power had weakened the Baldwin Government, for which Churchill had some responsibility. Yet once more he was fortunate in his defeat: he would not have wanted to be chancellor of the Exchequer during the Wall Street Crash later that year.

It's not enough to kill a Russian,' went the admiring saying in the Grande Armée, 'you have to push him over too.')

impotent misery

That's war: very high in the morning and very low in the evening: from triumph to failure is only one step.

It was the Russians who provided the oceans of blood necessary to defeat Germany, and it cannot be reiterated enough that out of every five Germans killed in combat – that is, on the battlefield rather than in aerial bombing or through other means – four died on the Eastern Front.

More battles are lost by loss of hope than loss of blood.

Nothing short of military defeat demoralizes a country so totally as hyper-inflation, and the Directory

He accepted it, walked over to the monster, and stabbed it a dozen times. "Dead," he pronounced, and walked back over.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Victory should look thus: the defeated are compelled to buy goods manufactured by the victors. Why, they do it willingly, because the victors' goods are better and cheaper. The victors' currency is stronger than the currency of the defeated, and the vanquished trust it much more than their own. Do you understand me, Baron Fitz-Oesterlen? Are you beginning slowly to differentiate the victors from the vanquished? Do you comprehend whom woe actually betides?

Never give in to a feeling of despair, fear, or defeat. Lead your negative emotion. Never allow those emotions to lead you. Always lead them by quickly moving in the opposite direction those emotions insist you should go!

He refers to a defeat as if it came from God, but a victory as if it came from himself.

But do you remember when the army of Israel tried to throw off the Philistine yoke in the latter days of Eli the high priest?" "I'd hardly count that a victory. Our people were slaughtered and the Ark of the Covenant stolen.

Been having a fight with your blankets, Septimus?" A familiar voice echoed down the chimney. "Looks like you lost," the voice continued with a chuckle. "Not wise to take on a pair of blankets, lad. One, maybe, but two blankets always gang up on you. Vicious things, blankets.

Winning does not tempt that man. His growth is this: to be defeated by ever greater forces. Book of Images