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Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field. — Wendell Phillips

In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Love means eventual pain victory means eventual defeat — Charles Bukowski

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

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success. — Charles Stanley

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

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. — Norman Vincent Peale

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat. — Jefferson Davis

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

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat. — Charles Caleb Colton

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

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. — Winston Churchill

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

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory. — Fernando Pessoa

I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight. — Yukio Mishima

We must take the long view - every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition. — Nathanael West

Non-engagement or retreat can turn certain defeat into victory. — Bryant McGill

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

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. — Sallust

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. — Sun Tzu

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

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. — Oscar Wilde

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat. — Bill Ayers

Best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team. — Ogwo David Emenike

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

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat. — Dejan Stojanovic

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism. — Orhan Pamuk

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

A defeat which opens the gates of victory for you is a wonderful defeat! A victory which opens the gates of defeat for you is a horrible victory! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. — Honore De Balzac

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

When you walk with Jesus, defeat turns into victory. — Beth Moore

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

Planting the seeds of future victory in present defeat is strategic brilliance of the highest order. — Anonymous

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources. — Indira Gandhi

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

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of. — Jack Nicklaus

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement. — Paulo Coelho

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory. — Yamaoka Tesshu

You only understand the concept of victory. Makeda does not comprehend the concept of defeat. — Larry Correia

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

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

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory. — Antonio Gramsci

Defeat may be victory in disguise. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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

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

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 has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. — John F. Kennedy

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

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat. — William Hartston

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! — Thomas Carlyle

The art of victory is learned in defeat. — Simon Bolivar

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise. — Mason Cooley

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 and defeat are found in the same entity — Thabiso Monkoe

On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self. — Akira Toriyama

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat. — Anna Wickham

In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will. — Winston S. Churchill

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. — W. Somerset Maugham

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. — Henry Ward Beecher

There are many paths to victory; choose the shortest one! There are many paths to defeat; choose the longest one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat. — Joel Osteen

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers. — Jeff Greenfield

But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!" Alisher — Sergei Lukyanenko

The bitterness of defeat adds to the sweetness of victory. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage. — Winston Churchill

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. — William McKinley

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. — Winston Churchill

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. — A.J. Cronin

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 real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. — Robert Collier

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory. — Millard Fillmore

Only the vanquished remember history. — Marshall McLuhan

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner. — Fernando Pessoa

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred. — James Ellis

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory. — Pat Buchanan

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.
(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) — Mahatma Gandhi

From victory we learn little, from defeat - everything. — Jeffrey Fry

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. — Jean-Paul Sartre

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat. — Eleanor Roosevelt