Defeat Quotes

But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Even if you win three or four times, the next victory will not necessarily be yours without trying.

All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns.

He felt better for his decision to be just another one of the Flock. There would be no ties now to the force that had driven him to learn, there would be no more challenge and no more failure. And it was pretty, just to stop thinking, and fly through the dark, toward the lights above the beach.