Quotes About Not Admitting Defeat

#1. He gave me a last dark look, not admitting defeat,not giving an inch .I watched him with unexpected regret. Watched him until the consciousness went out of his eyes and they were simply open but seeing nothing.

Dick Francis

#2. When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#3. I considered organizing a game of wits - " "Admitting defeat already, are you? Since you're unarmed?

Vivian Arend

#4. I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for our century.

Lenny Bruce

#5. Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.

Joe Sacco

#6. For the first time in my life I was admitting defeat.

Christina Lauren

#7. Admitting defeat? How un-huntress like of you.

Yvonne Nicolas

#8. Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Gene Tierney

#9. My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. We were losers who talked a winning game. No wonder honesty came to mean for my sister saying only the most damaging things against herself. If she began by admitting defeat, then something was possible: sincerity, perhaps, or at least the avoidance of appearing ludicrous.

Edmund White

#11. Alas, I had always loved sorrow and grief, but only for myself, for myself; for them I wept in my pity. I stretched out my arms to them in my despair, accusing, cursing, and despising myself. I told them that I had done all this, I alone, that I had brought them corruption, contagion, and lies!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

Rick Perry

#13. [P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#14. as much as we wanted to do the right thing. Sometimes, the right thing was just admitting defeat.

M. Robinson

#15. Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Daniel Webster

#16. For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

Jonathan Carroll