Quotes About Defeat

From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

E sei que do fundo do abismo onde os lançaram os seus inimigos se ergueram com tanto vigor e glória que dominaram o seu antigo vencedor e o derrubaram por seu turno.

there was no sympathy for struggle that ended in defeat. Which meant there was no sympathy for struggle itself—only for "winning.

She can have them, Mama, she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her.

The defeat that had frightened her in the faces of black men was the defeat of black forever defined by white.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

The gospel is the story of a good King who has come to reign. In love, he has come to restore his justice, peace and love in a world gone mad. He has battled the enemy and won the decisive victory that will secure the enemy's defeat. And we are on the way to the day when he will reign and everything will resonate with his blazing goodness.

Victory is sweet, but sweeter when your opponent is butt-ass naked in defeat.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem—a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

The failure of something great is never a simple matter, but where there is success and glory, there must also be failure and shame.

Crowds rarely cheer too loudly for the defeated, no matter how hard they fought, how great their sacrifices, how long the odds. Maidens might wet themselves over cheap and worthless victories, but they don't so much as blush for 'I did my best

Vick learned long ago that might have is a game with no winners. Few games do have winners, in the end.

Few things indeed,' mused Pike, 'seem to have so much appeal before, and so little after, as a battle.

It was a bad day for men, all in all, and a good one for the ground. Always the way, after a battle. Only the ground wins.

There's only one kind of good news, and that's dead enemies.

Is there anything you do badly?" "Lose." She gave her sweetest smile. "I swear I'm the worst loser in the world.

and swore to herself that if she lived out the week, she'd make it her business to see Stour Nightfall fucked by a pig.

Let's give these Crinna sheepfuckers a fucking they'll not forget!

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

The dead win when you quit singing and let them take you on down the road with them." Something

They are both silent, doubt and grief and fury scuttling between them like beetles in search of a meal. Tetsuo and the girl stare at each other with such deep familiarity that Key feels forgotten, alone—almost ashamed of the dreams that have kept her alive for a decade. They have never felt so hopeless, or so false. "Her name is Key," Tetsuo says, in something like defeat. He turns away, though he makes no move to leave. "She will be your new caretaker.