593 Quotes About Defeat

They did not understand that war, which trained courage and founded the cities of barbarous and ignorant men, brings to victor himself but ruin and misery, and is nothing but a horrible and stupid crime when nations are united together by common bonds of art, science, and trade.

Anyone can deal with success, but only the wise can learn from failure.

To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.

Death is a beautiful woman, with wings and one breast almost bare; or is that Victory? I can’t remember.

An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.

Any success against a false target is a false victory.

Those soldiers belonging to the victorious side whose blood has oozed into the ground and whose hearts have ceased beating, have they partaken in the triumph as well as those who are unscarred and busy draining cups of sake to each other's glorious deeds? I rather think they belong instead to the defeated."..."You mean that those who are killed all belong to the defeated, regardless of which side they were on?

All through the day, there are two voices that compete for your attention - the voice of faith and the voice of defeat. Tune into the voice of faith because it is the voice of victory!

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.