593 Quotes About Defeat

A victory won without struggle is an honourless victory; a defeat happened despite struggle is an honourable defeat!

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat...

Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

You rolled me once, you rolled me twice and the third time, you had taught to win the game.

Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you’re going to get knocked down again.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

In battle, it is not the strongest or the bravest or those with the greater numbers who win. Victory belongs to the side that best understands the price of defeat.