Quotes & Sayings About Admitting Defeat

Admitting defeat? How un-huntress like of you. — Yvonne Nicolas

I considered organizing a game of wits - " "Admitting defeat already, are you? Since you're unarmed? — Vivian Arend

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

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

For the first time in my life I was admitting defeat. — Christina Lauren

That night, my heart softened around Wills's autism. Clearly, Katherine had been right. I couldn't isolate him. As painful as it was to watch him paralyzed with fright, I knew that he was happier when he tried. Not showing up was admitting defeat. Admitting that he couldn't do it. Admitting that the autism was bigger than him. — Monica Holloway

When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself — Sunday Adelaja

The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have. — David Deida

as much as we wanted to do the right thing. Sometimes, the right thing was just admitting defeat. — M. Robinson

Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn't accounted for the fact that there might not be much of a resolution to the battle, and he hadn't imagined what it would feel like when the war just sort of ended, without anyone admitting defeat and congratulating him for his bravery. — Dave Eggers

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

I asked her if she'd ever wanted children. She told me, "Everybody doesn't get everything." It sounded depressing to me at the time, a statement of defeat. Now admitting it seems like the obvious and essential work of growing up. Everybody doesn't get everything: as natural and unavoidable as mortality. — Ariel Levy

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat. — Jonathan Carroll

[P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others. — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto