Quotes About Defeat

Give up, she wanted to tell them. You lost. The world is crap, and no amount of communicating is going to change it.

He seemed much older and very tired, defeated.

There is this, about being the sparring partner of the best swordsman in Caribastos. I always lost. But if ever I meet the third best swordsman in Caribastos, he's going to be in very deep trouble.

Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God knows, has no honor in it. But exile, for no other motive than ease—that would be to give up all hope of honor. The last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

Exile, for no other reason than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

Her alanda, as?l yenilgi, unutmakt?r, özellikle de sizi neyin gebertmiÅŸ olduÄŸunu unutmak.

A person may be smaller in success than in defeat; it depends on what he is trying to do

He wasn't tough. A tough man has to win and lose. He has to come up after being knocked down, he has to have taken a few beatings, and know what it means to win the hard way. Anybody, he said dryly, can knock a man down. When you've been knocked down at least three times yourself, and then got up and floored the other man, then you can figure you're a tough hombre.

Clear and strong as an actual presence, that remembrance flashed upon her in an instant, that example upheld her, and the true love defeated the false.

An enemy has to be defeated in battle, but an adversary's different. You must outwit an adversary.

His worst enemy would succumb to this treatment.

Those who refuse will be crushed.

If it is a failure, I will take the loss.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.

While there was work to be done, women did it, and behind the vivid foreground activities of popes and kings, wars and discoveries, tyranny and defeat, working women wove the real fabric of the kind of history that has yet to receive its due.

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;. If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster.

The sound of those doors, locking him in, locking her out, was the sound of her defeat and failure.

Maketa," I said, throwing myself down in the sand. "I lost. The ocean won." She smiled. "Was it a good feeling?" "Mm," I said. "That's good," she said. "Have another rice ball?

you should always kick a man when he's down. It's much easier then.

Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world's beauty and love were on the edge of destruction, theirs would still be the only side to be on; defeated love would still be love, hate's victory would not make it other than it was.

Confusion to our enemies!