Quotes about Defeat

We wanted peace. We did not care about anyone's victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

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.

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.

He defeated her by admitting her power; she could not have the gratification of enforcing it.

In this new world, a foreign policy victory by every traditional standard could be spun as a defeat, at least in the minds of half the country; messages that advanced our interests and built goodwill abroad could lead to a host of political headaches back home.

Man against Nature...Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses.

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

That's how you know you've mastered a videogame—when a bunch of butt-hurt crybabies start to accuse you of cheating in an effort to cope with the beatdown they've just suffered at your hands.

my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.