A Quote by B. C. Forbes

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B. C. Forbes

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Defeat Inescapable Nearest Often Often Is Seems Triumph

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B. C. Forbes
Scottish - Journalist
May 14, 1880 - May 6, 1954

You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

Charles Caleb Colton

We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

William McKinley

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

Max Lerner

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Bruce Jackson

The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.

Fred Rogers

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

Ameen Rihani

A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.