Quotes about Defeat

Failure inspires winners & defeats losers.

There can be glory in failure and despair in success.

Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of their defeat to benefit themselves.

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.

To talk of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat is not really heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future. The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live. It is only from this question, with its responsibility towards history, that fruitful solutions can come, even if for the time being they are very humiliating.

every warrior must face defeat and that defeat does not define the warrior any more than words define the heart of a lion.

Too often we say we are "defeated" by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient!

I don't know. I only think the Austrians will not stop when they have won a victory. It is in defeat that we become Christian. The Austrians are Christians-- except for the Bosnians. I don't mean technically Christian. I mean like Our Lord. He said nothing. We are all gentler now because we are beaten. How would our Lord have been f Peter had rescued him in the Garden?

To win a war, we must kill our enemies.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought. "Nothing," he said aloud. "I went out too far.