Top 60 Defeats Quotes

Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don’t have to do it. It’s all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The national team is part of my life. I have an incredible history, of many conquests and also many defeats. But to play for Brazil, I have to have a club and play well. I’m not going to be picked on my past or because of my sponsor, as many have said.

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it’s so exhausting and such hard work; if you don’t absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.

I have written a considerable amount – both fiction and nonfiction – about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people – a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated.

You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That’s the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.

Some days the competition would beat me and I’d go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you’re working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

When you fight the best and then you have to face someone who is supposedly easy to beat, that’s when you take your eye off the ball and the defeats begin.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

A tour to India is different from other tours. The expectations to win are very high from our own people, and defeats and poor performances are not forgotten easily.

I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.

My family is important to me. They have always been close to me during my career, victories and defeats, and the most difficult moments.

I’ve had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called ‘a life’ – I’ve refused to give up.

If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it will mark the success of one of the most deeply cynical political campaigns in American history. It is hard to beat an incumbent no matter the economic climate.

Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the greatest city because the fans will stick to a loser season after season. I have had my share of defeats, so I should know.

I can’t say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is supposed to mean. That defeats the purpose of making it. Hopefully, whoever connects with it connects with it in their own way, and it can mean whatever it is supposed to mean to them.

Wenger and Mourinho are different, but there is one thing they have in common, and that is that they do not like defeats. And I think this is the driving force behind the success of both of them.

My whole career, the ups, the downs, the victories, the defeats, the lessons I’ve learned and kept rolling, that’s what’s made me the fighter I am today.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

I have always loved football! Of course, you have sometimes difficult times with injuries, defeats, etc., but this is part of the sport.

Music is a way of expressing my mood, and it definitely helps to motivate me before a game. It also helps me move on from past defeats or keeps my mind busy when I’m not playing, so music is definitely something that follows me every step of every day.

I’ve been involved in a lot of victories and I’ve been involved in defeats.

A big part of managing is managing defeats and assessing where you are. It’s making sure that you prepare a group of players and that you create an environment that is a competitive one but that is also a realistic one.

People are right to question what I’ve got left and how I am going to be after the injuries and defeats.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

I’ve always hated to lose and I continue to hate it. But I’ve been obliged to accept it because I also have had some crushing defeats.

Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today’s headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

We don’t know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

When you play for a club like Madrid, you always have to stay in the present, because everything is so intense: the sprints, the headers, the tackles, the training sessions, the away trips, the hotels. The victories and the defeats.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

The biggest players I’ve seen are the ones that take the wins well – don’t get carried away with them – but the defeats really hurt.

Unfortunately, defeats are part of the game.

Real Madrid is a big club, and like at any other big club, too, there are always critics after defeats.

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it’s almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal. They deserve their defeats.

I remember that in 2017, when we won everything, we started the pre-season badly, with defeats.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Steve Davis has found a way of competing to a level that is not as high as it once was, enjoying his wins, and not getting too angry about the defeats.

When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn’t feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Every great player is more outstanding in the victory, but has more pressure in defeats.

There are those who say that defeats teach a lot, but also learning to win is not bad.

In Italy, after a few defeats, it’s quite common for the team to have to stay at the training ground for a few days, rather than go home.

You learn a lot from defeats. As well, you need to learn from victories.

The whole key about the no-huddle is getting first downs because if you’re getting three-and-out, it kind of defeats the purpose.

All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don’t go their way late in life as they did early in life.

Sometimes when you make mistakes at big clubs you get punished. With Arsenal, people always seem to blame the defence for defeats. But I feel really safe behind them.

I’m very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

In 1973 I became heavyweight champion of the world with 38 victories, no defeats as a professional. You get to a point where you think you cannot lose. I felt like I had the greatest power with my fists, I was the strongest man in the world.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I’ll remember my first league title, my first cup, the Champions League. But also the defeats – that’s also part of football.

You’re gonna have pretty bad defeats. But you’ve gotta be able to respond and come back in and compete the next night.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people’s dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats – and they in turn can listen to ours.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.