Quotes About Defeat

one grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is in her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one. And if he can 'defeat with great slaughter' his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.

No man is defeated without until he is defeated within.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.

Then Pasquale himself began to be silent, defeated by Lila's capacity to link one thing to another in a chain that tightened around you on all sides.

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Porok je u na?elu uvijek ljubav prema neuspjehu.

Cockroach: What is war? Man: How we lost the human race.

Human nature is, and will always be, indelibly stamped by weakness. Indeed, we are so bound to our own defeat that it has become the means of our development.

Dijkstra tries to raise his hands, but the wrench comes crashing down on his head. Crack. Crack. The droid is relentless. Crack. Dijkstra sees his own blood in his eyes. Crack. He falls to the floor. Crack. Crack. The droid is smashing his head in. Crack. Crack.

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

The army's exact losses are still uncertain, but there was no doubt that the Stalingrad campaign represented the most catastrophic defeat hitherto experienced in German history.

In defeat, malice. In victory, revenge

A person who has lost to the strong competitors and/or by fair means in a contest is still a winner even if he has no supporter; One who has won to the weak contestants and/or by foul methods in a competition is yet a loser even if he has many followers.

Nothing can defeat you, if you make up your mind to fight and nothing can save you, if you have accepted defeat.

Es terrible perder una guerra. -Casi tan terrible como ganarla.

Rhetoric is useful because things that are true and things that are just have a natural tendency to prevail over their opposites, so that if the decisions of judges are not what they ought to be, the defeat must be due to the speakers themselves, and they must be blamed accordingly.

To look good in defeat is the ultimate a person can want.

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women.

It's as if life equals winning, so death equals losing

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

And to face this truth means defeating the fear of your own demise—literal and professional. This fear handcuffs you to your fluid intelligence curve. If you can master it, the reward is incalculable: it will set you free. But the only way to do it is by facing it head-on.

It's always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, 'Man, what's going on?' It's always discouraging. But I'm a fighter. I don't like to quit.