Defeat Quotes

Defeat is only a defeat when we don't learn anything.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine.

The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.

To cease to love -- that is defeat.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries.

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis!

The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.

Ho Chi Minh sought to defeat both adversaries [French and American] primarily by using diplomatic and political means, combined with paramilitary activities.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

Only the vanquished remember history.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Will power defeats all powers

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

If a fighter suffers defeat, especially in a fight he feels he won, it will never leave his mind. He is always going to want to avenge that loss.

I am asking all Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, to join us in our campaign to defeat the corrupt establishment and give our government back to the people. It's going to happen.

Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

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.

...the aim was to mobilize Christians to proclaim the name of Jesus and to pronounce the defeat of the spiritual forces entrenched in the capital.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man

I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.