Quotes about Defeat

But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.

The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured.

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.

May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Spare the conquered and confront the proud.

All of us are either trying to work and be good enough to please God, or we are believing and trusting God to do for us what we can't do for ourselves. At each moment of our lives we find ourselves on one road or the other. If we are still trying to please God through being good enough, defeat and frustration will be our lot. If we have trusted in God's grace to transform us and form Christ within us, we will enjoy life and peace.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.