Quotes About Defeat

O verdadeiro desespero sempre e imediatamente ultrapassou o seu alvo

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

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.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.

Any time a party has lost three consecutive elections, it becomes a bit more willing to explore the notion of principled compromise so it's able to pursue some of its objectives.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.

You can't win them all.

You can't always win - although we always try!

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

Sometimes you win by losing.

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.

I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.