Sometimes You Have To Admit Defeat Quotes

#1. The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. To me, it felt like such a failure. I never thought my mom and I would get that low. I wasn't ready to admit defeat.

Heather Demetrios

#3. Never admit defeat, Lexie. No matter the situation. And no matter what resources you have to call upon to do it.

Kristen Ashley

#4. At first it may cause a good deal of trouble, for the body insists on its rights, not understanding that if it refuses to admit defeat it is, as it were, cutting off its own head.

Teresa Of Avila

#5. Rather than admit defeat, I decided to change goals.

David Sedaris

#6. Her love for Willie drove her to decide for his happiness. He'd never be happy to admit defeat, to leave his beloved hills and valleys and return back east.

Janette Oke

#7. A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.

Atul Gawande

#8. 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.

Darrell Royal

#9. drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat.

Alex Ferguson

#10. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

Peter Sellers

#11. When we pray we admit defeat.

Anthony Burgess

#12. There was too much to say - she wanted to prove her independence but knew the Contessa would not care, she wanted revenge but knew the Contessa would never admit her defeat.

Gordon Dahlquist

#13. Never admit defeat and ask for a quick death! Die first, then admit defeat! If you are defeated but didn't die, it just means you were lucky! At those times, think only about survival! Survive and think only about killing the one who failed to kill you!
~Kenpachi Zaraki

Tite Kubo

#14. Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.

Sloane Crosley

#15. Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat

Kim Hyun-joong