Quotes About Defeat

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Y en cuanto a nosotros, seguiremos luchando en las montañas como guerrillas si perdemos Kandahar, y si alcanzamos el martirio, habremos obtenido una victoria.» Estoy empezando a cansarme de todo esto, pero empiezo a comprenderlo. La victoria llega con el éxito y la victoria llega con la derrota.

Governments like it that way. They want their people to see war as a drama of opposites, good and evil, "them" and "us," victory or defeat. But war is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.

Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it.

The only thing sadder than a battle won is a battle lost.

Voltaire rubbed salt into these wounds by denouncing war as the "great illusion." "The victorious nation never profits from the spoils of the conquered; it pays for everything," he said. "It suffers as much when its armies are successful as when they are defeated. Whoever wins, humanity loses.

it was in defeat more than victory that Polybius saw the essence of Rome's greatness. It

An officers' mess is one of the surest barometers of military success. So long as the officers continue to pig it with the men, there is danger of defeat. But once the officers' mess appears — raised almost on the bodies of the foe, contrived of sticks and pieces of canvas or perhaps only an imaginary line like a taboo — once this appears, and caste is restored. we know that victory is ours.

Truly, when the gods set their faces against you, you are fucked.

Twice I fought back, but I got pretty badly beaten

the British Government became determined that when victory came they should be in a position to impose terms, not only on the defeated enemy, but also on their victorious allies.

It is an axiom of warfare that a good officer never reinforces failure. To do so simply throws away more lives and a good general will avoid doing that. A commander's task, even in moments of defeat, is to find some way forward, some way out of the current catastrophe and when General Haig assembled his reports and looked at his maps on 2-3 July, he saw that all was not yet lost in this battle on the Somme.

Now and again, the history of war throws up a battle that transcends reason. The soldiers fight because they cannot stop fighting, because too much has been committed to give up now. Too much blood has been shed, so much courage and will has been committed, that to admit defeat would be unthinkable.

Courage is an exquisite weapon to defeat the armies of regret that tear away at lives meekly lived.

No one can defeat you, unless you defeat yourself. .

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat.

For a certain kind of temperament, defeat is never defeat by reality, but always defeat by other people, often acting together as members of a class, tribe, conspiracy or clan.

The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

A prisoner of he who has already slain you once, he thought. No doubt near to his place of power, in a cage built just for me. Bad. Bad. There

There were pictures from cricket matches, and the statement by the Australian captain about a bunch of Third World beggars who think they can play cricket. And then the jubilation and fireworks and celebration when the bunch of beggars defeated Australia in the Test Series.