defeat quotes

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

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.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

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

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.

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn’t deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

Losing is tough.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.