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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
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
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
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
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
[News conference, April 21 1961] — John F. Kennedy
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
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
The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams.
-From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin — Robert Jordan
-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
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
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