Quotes About Defeat

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.

I might be able to high fly when I'm wrestling Pentagon, at the end of the day, Pentagon won that match. At the end of the day, I took 10 package piledrivers, so I don't really want to do that again.

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

I love football. But it goes through periods of poor play.

There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Three things have I never known,' he boasted once. 'Fear, and defeat, and love-sickness.' Imric looked at him strangely. 'Young are you,' he murmured, 'not to have known the three ultimates of human life.

setiap pejuang bisa kalah dan terus-menerus kalah tanpa kemenangan, dan kekalahan itulah gurunya yang terlalu mahal dibayarnya. Tetapi biarpun kalah, selama seseorang itu bisa dinamai pejuang dia tidak akan menyerah. Bahasa Indonesia cukup kaya untuk membedakan kalah daripada menyerah (Prahara Budaya, h. 187)

All we can do is pray, Ma, pray. No, Child, these are the deeds of human beings. Planned by the brains of humans, and by the warped hearts of humans. It is to people we must speak our words. God has never sided with the defeated.

Melawan pada yang berilmu dan pengetahuan adalah menyerahkan diri pada maut dan kehinaan

kalau kau menang, bersiaplah untuk kalah, dan kalau kau kalah, terimalah kekalahan itu dengan hati besar, dan rebutlah kemenangan.

Sometimes, silence has a power that can never defeated.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

I played all games seriously, even nastily. They provided me an enclosed world whose triumphs compensated me somewhat for a life of defeat elsewhere.

You can win a million battles but you can only lose one.

admitting the ultimate defeat of the spirit in self-imposed death.

I have reached the age where life has become a series of accepted defeats—age and defeat, blood brothers faithful to the end.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.

XXIX You have set me among those who are defeated. I know it is not for me to win, nor to leave the game. I shall plunge into the pool although but to sink to the bottom. I shall play the game of my undoing. I shall stake all I have and when I lose my last penny I shall stake myself, and then I think I shall have won through my utter defeat.

Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati. In unrightousness they prosper, in it they find their good, through it they defeat their enemies, - but they perish at the root.

But the child's faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back.

Wrong cannot afford defeat but Right can