Quotes about Defeat

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

If you face life with the sincere faith that through the aid of the Almighty you can overcome your troubles, then you will keep defeat at arm's length. And this applies in all the circumstances life can bring.

You need be defeated only if you are willing to be.

It is a pity," he wrote, "that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is quite unnecessary.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

It was defeat. It was being beaten. More bitter to him than death. You need to get over that, he said.

No fighter is more divine than one who can achieve victory through defeat. In the instant when he receives the deadly wound, his opponent falls to the ground, himself struck a final blow. For he strikes love and is thus himself struck by love. And by letting itself be struck, love proves what had to be proven: that it is indeed love.

The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

A mere man alone can easily be defeated, but a man alive with the power of God within him is invincible.

Enable us to walk increasingly in the wholeness, holiness, and power of the kingdom of the heavens. No one need live in spiritual and personal defeat. A life of victory over sin and circumstance is accessible to all.

Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but...defeat with God is not defeat.