Defeat Quotes

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years...

Only the vanquished remember history.

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed...

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set...

Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps,...

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all...

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's ...

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I pers...

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not ...

War is a defeat for humanity.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life wer...

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a C...

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great s...

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to...

their heart grew coldthey let their wings down

More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how grues...

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, w...

If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because the...

Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on ...

What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.

What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate sco...

An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amo...

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a...

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defe...

I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I’m disgusting. I can’...

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as...

It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began....

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

The way to defeat international terrorism is through international cooperation based on internationa...

Who apart From ourselves can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?

Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potat...

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle,...

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things tha...

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Man is not made for defeat.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happ...

I’ve witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to b...

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, a kiss too longAnd there follows a mist and a weep...

Never speak of defeat before battle.

They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for ...

It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least wh...

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that ...

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee...

When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show o...

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it ...

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life com...

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

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeate...

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

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

I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things d...

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made s...

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism...

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really ins...

No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up th...

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side an...

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Aust...

God save me from another such victory.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momen

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world a...