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Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat. — Alan W. Watts

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine. — Ronnie Kasrils

Victory and defeat are each of the same price. — Thomas Jefferson

Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live,
giving up victory and defeat. — Gautama Buddha

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. — Matthew Thomas

Do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat — Sun Tzu

Occupation of vast reaches of space means nothing. It is control of population centers and essential resources that determines victory or defeat. — Greg Bear

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul. — Orison Swett Marden

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat! ... — Rumi

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat. — Joel Osteen

Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat. — John Wooden

You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. It's ok to cry..!! You can overcome — Eiichiro Oda

We can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory. — Joel Osteen

I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat. — Lou Gehrig

Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory. — Andrew Davidson

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other. — Rick Riordan

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
[News conference, April 21 1961] — John F. Kennedy

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. — Horatio Nelson

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan ... I'm the responsible officer of the Government. — John F. Kennedy

No Senior military commander can for years on end expect his soldiers to lay down their lives for victory and then precipitate defeat by his own hand. — Erich Von Manstein

I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself. — Mihail Sebastian

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. — Sri Aurobindo

I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat. — Jose Mourinho

Smile in the face of adversity, be contemptuous of danger, undaunted in defeat and magnanimous in victory. — Sumitro Djojohadikusumo

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats. — Ze Frank

On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory. — Frederick William Robertson

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats? — Christopher Fry

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat. — Winston Churchill

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat. — Democritus

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man's duty and should be his joy. — Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat. — Darrell Royal

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures. — Tim Howard

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. — Al Gore

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. — Plato

Be humble in victory and gracious in defeat. — Christopher Earle

Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble. — Orrin Woodward

Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but ... defeat with God is not defeat. — William Faulkner

It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory. — Andre Bramble

No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan. — George C. Marshall

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands. — Alan Keyes

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat — Theodore Roosevelt

Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take. — Wilferd Peterson

Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Victory and defeat are found in the same entity — Thabiso Monkoe

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire. — Emile De Girardin

Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat? — Rosa Parks

Victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. — Anonymous

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams.
-From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin — Robert Jordan

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat. — Gautama Buddha

The glow of victory and the harsh chill of defeat are two sides of the same coin. — Ceri London

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory. — Winston Churchill

Thinking faith thoughts, and speaking faith words, will lead the heart out of defeat and into victory. — Kenneth E. Hagin

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory. — Daisaku Ikeda

The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death. — William C. Brown

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory. — Robert Louis Stevenson

One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up. — Markus Zusak

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever. — Alison Lurie

Defeat is a disease, and victory is the cure. — Anonymous

Greatest victory which we desire, is to defeat truth and Lo! Truth is undefeated — Aftab Alam

Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see. — Jane Bowles

Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up? — Luo Guanzhong

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person. — Israelmore Ayivor

To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. — Jozef Pilsudski

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore. — John Bolton

How a man handles himself in defeat is more important than how he handles himself in victory. — T.A. Uner

Releasing both victory and defeat, the tranquil minds dwell in happiness. Victory produces hostility. — Thich Nhat Hanh