Quotes About Defeat

the only way you can defeat a spirit is with the opposite spirit.

This party is turning out to be the turd-encrusted cherry on the top of my shit-shake of a day.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

Winning teaches you nothing," said Tunny. "You see what a man really is when he loses.

Defeats do men far more good than victories.

Did is a word of achievement, Won't is a word of retreat, Might is a word of bereavement, Can't is a word of defeat, Ought is a word of duty, Try is a word each hour, Will is a word of beauty, Can is a word of power.

No matter how many minutes remained on the clock, there was no chance of victory.

People like to see a king uncrowned, like to see a thoroughbred racehorse beaten when he's running at the top of his form and has outrun everything in sight. They wanted to see that the king, the top dog, the best man, has a flaw, can be beaten like them, is vulnerable like them, can be defeated, unfrocked, uncrowned, knocked down, and thus brought right down to their level.

sometimes people couldn't be saved, no matter how much you wanted it, no matter how hard you tried.

She's pretty, but in her face you can see all the things she's given up on in life.

I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that when you do not see me any more you will know that my enemy has finally triumphed.

When you're young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you.

Victory implies a fight, and there is nothing to be gained by fighting with us. The humans can't win.

The bitterness and sense of defeat she experienced at her mother's accusation never quite left her. Nor did her need to please her father.

It was not supposed to be this easy. This was to be the final confrontation. There was to be struggle, torment, despair. But the witch—who was the only person in the woods who wanted nothing—was not what Hazel had to defeat.

They were princesses once, charged with saving the kingdom from a dragon, and whoever could defeat it would be queen. Daisy used strength, Amelia wits, and Isabelle fell in love with the dragon, because that's the sort of girl she was. She rid the kingdom of the dragon, and then made it its king.

A sick-hued darkness overtook Hazel. There was ground, somewhere, and somewhere beyond that there was a palace, and somewhere beyond that was a witch, and somewhere beyond her was a boy who did not want her to come, and she would not come, could not come, because she could not defeat the winter. She was going to collapse here. She would fail.

In fact, losing feels about two times as bad to us as winning feels good to us.

Astro Teller also understands a subtler but no less important point, that we have a tendency, when we butt up against a monkey that is proving difficult to solve, to turn our attention to building pedestals rather than giving up. We prefer that illusion of progress to having to quit and admit defeat.

Thus ever to tyrants.

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre of our plan, I will remain an outspoken advocate for that cause.

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.