Quotes About Defeat

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

We need to lose less often in the fight against the bad guys. Or, at least, lose more gracefully and recover quickly.

True champions deal with success and failure, not just success alone.

These other rappers getting bodied and carried away.

Guess you lose some & win some, long as the outcome is income.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

In life the loser's score is always zero.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

In 1934, after Upton Sinclair was defeated in his campaign to become the next governor of California, he labeled the advertising concern that defeated him a "lie factory." Marston took much the same view. One of Wonder Woman's most sinister adversaries, the Duke of Deception, runs an advertising firm called the Lie Factory.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Because people tend to regard loss, wrong, bad, and failure as the same thing, it is little wonder that loss is a dirty word in our vocabulary.

the rise sets up the fall; the winning sets up the losing