Defeat Mentality Quotes

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to.

There is something inherently tough about Americans. They will not accept defeat.

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

In general it is a natural characteristic of human nature everywhere, that whenever a man fails in his first contests he becomes disheartened with respect to what is to come.

When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves.

He too knows how to lose.

My spirit is so defeated that I do not feel strong enough to command a single soldier. My presumptuousness made me believe that my desire to achieve and my ardent zeal for the fatherland would supply the talents I lacked to command

Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.

I don't think any professional accepts defeat.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.