Quotes about Defeat
You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.
— Toni Morrison
His realm, we will continue to live defeated lives in the face of walls too thick to crumble, and an enemy looming too large for us to overcome. One Game, Two Chapels, One God
— Tony Evans
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
— Dante Alighieri
Ignorance is not bliss; it is defeat. If you are a Christian, you are the target. If
— Neil Anderson
There was no time during the rebellion when I did not think, and often say, that the South was more to be benefited by its defeat than the North. The latter had the people, the institutions, and the territory to make a great and prosperous nation. The former was burdened with an institution abhorrent to all civilized people not brought up under it, and one which degraded labor, kept it in ignorance, and enervated the governing class.
— Ulysses S. Grant
We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.
— Milan Kundera
We wanted peace. We did not care about anyone's victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
— Bruce Lee
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.
— Ernest Hemingway
We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.
— Tim Tebow
He defeated her by admitting her power; she could not have the gratification of enforcing it.
— Ayn Rand