Quotes about Defeat

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.

This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all mortifications to achieve a 'holy indifference' to the temporal success or failure of the cause to which one has devoted one's best energies. If it triumphs, well and good; and if it meets defeat, that also is well and good, if only in ways that, to a limited and timebound mind, are here and now entirely incomprehensible.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I talk with the authority of failure.

God's justification of sinners is not a forgetting, nor is it simply forgiveness. It is a definitive, wholesale, final assault upon and defeat of Sin, understood as a Power, and the creation of a new humanity.

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

Failure has no friends.

The defeat that had frightened her in the faces of black men was the defeat of black forever defined by white.

Evil was defeated because good people rose to the challenge and refused to surrender.