Quotes About Defeat

All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

We must never shed tears That is the life form's defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

There is nothing like competition. It teaches you early in life to win and lose, and, when you lose, to put your chin out instead of dropping it.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. [News conference, April 21 1961]

While a British band allegedly played a march tune, "The World Turned Upside Down," 7241 British soldiers surrendered their arms.

There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

True courage, she believed, consisted of facing up to one's fears and defeating them.

If you worry that you'll lose, you probably will.

Morgarath watched, appalled, as twenty Rangers shot his attack to pieces.

their way across the border into Araluen. Will has defeated one of Tennyson's Genovesan assassins in Clonmel – but there are two left alive. Are the extraordinary archery skills of Will and Halt enough to save them during a duel with the assassins . . . or is Will's mentor facing his last battle?

But Louis XV, in arguably the biggest single blunder of his reign, capitulated to clerical pressure and to specious arguments such as the 'donation of Constantine', whereby the first Christian emperor had given land to the church unencumbered and in perpetuity. The problem did not go away: clerical resistance to taxation was to defeat Louis XVI's major reforming initiative too.

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

why are we remembered for our failures? Why do defeats and retreats mean more than victories?