A Quote by Grenville Kleiser

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

Grenville Kleiser

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Bitter Defeat Swallow

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Grenville Kleiser
American - Author
1868 - 1953

The manner of my defeat against Mayweather and certainly Manny Pacquiao was a bitter pill to swallow.

Ricky Hatton

Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.

Charles Spurgeon

Swallow what's bitter in the cup and move on.

Howard W. Hunter

The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

Chris Hedges

One has to swallow a bitter pill to get cured.

Sharad Pawar

If the day ever comes when I can swallow defeat, I'll quit.

Toe Blake

One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

Anderson Silva

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

Bikram Choudhury

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

Paulo Coelho

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

Georg Ebers

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

Anderson Silva

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Henry Ward Beecher

For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!