Accepting Defeat Quotes

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

He's a sore loser and he lost the fight.

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.

Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

God, let me remember all good losers.

But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli

When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's hot.

If I come back and I lose, at least I know I did everything I should have done, I have no regrets, I'll be happy. I can die happy.

Sighing, she gave a brief nod. “I was supposed to win. I was supposed to finish you off. They never counted on you winning. And then you didn’t kill me. It was awful.” “You’re welcome,” I said, feeling fresh anger ignite. “I’ll try not to humiliate you by letting you live next time.” (Max II to Max)

When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody.

… there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.

Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.