Quotes About Defeat

All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat.

Offering dragons quarter is no good,they regrow all their parts & come on again,they have to be killed.

But I do guess mos peoples gonna lose.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

Failure can have a certain grandeur that success never knows

The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

without a war, America would descend into total confusion and would have to turn itself into a police state to survive, because its people no longer have any internal structure. Americans can never be defeated by war. It is peace they find intolerable.

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

My mom once told me, back when I was a kid, that I would never understand girls unless I understood the fear of being lonely and alone. She said no girl would ever understand boys unless she understood the fear of being dishonored and defeated.

After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.

Flurries of snow obscured the view through the windows, but they were halfhearted and ultimately inconsequential, like the parting shots of a defeated army. Angel

Death, thou shalt die.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a Sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all.

And I'm drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I'm sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.

All my life I've always been so blue, born to lose, and now I'm losing you.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.