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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.
- 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
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.
- Barack Obama
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.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
- Pope John Paul II
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.
- Ernest Cline
my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.
- Ernest Cline
some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.
- Beth Moore