593 Quotes About Defeat

I know success, I have experienced failure, I have never conceded defeat.

They were losing. No. They had lost.

Jesus won the war, and the rest of history is simply mopping up.

You are right, Frodo,’ said Gandalf: ‘to go back is to admit defeat, and face worse defeat to come.

Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?

Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear.

Y tú ahí de espaldas, de pronto más sabio y más triste que ellos, de qué te habrá servido tanta previsión si al final estás danzando esta misma música insensata.

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.

The I feel a contentment in defeat, I reflected, simply because defeat has come, because it is infinitely connected to all the acts that are, that were, and that shall be, because to censure or deplore a single real act is to blaspheme against the universe.