Mental Defeat Quotes

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

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Nonresistance is one of the principles of aikido. Because there is no resistance, you have won before even starting. People whose minds are evil or who enjoy fighting are defeated without a fight.

There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

A lot of time I fight guys and after a few rounds, they accept my dominance. They aren't fighting to win anymore. They're fighting to not lose. I've seen it many times. It's very hard for me to finish a guy like this. He doesn't want to get hurt. It's normal. It's human nature.

Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.

In war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

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.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

Battles, on the military and the economic front, are first lost in the minds of the strategists for want of ideas before they are lost on the battleground for want of armoury.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

If I would go out against some of these players and see them as their ranking, then I probably would have already lost before I even stepped on the court.

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so

But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing.

If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.