Quotes about Defeat

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.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated

Never give in to a feeling of despair, fear, or defeat. Lead your negative emotion. Never allow those emotions to lead you. Always lead them by quickly moving in the opposite direction those emotions insist you should go!

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.