A Quote by Michel de Montaigne

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

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Failure Defeats More Some Than Triumphant Victories

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Michel de Montaigne
French - Philosopher
February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories.

Gianluigi Buffon

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

Soren Kierkegaard

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.

Gianluigi Buffon

I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.

Winfield Scott

I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

Fedor Emelianenko

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

George MacDonald

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

Orhan Pamuk

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

t's important to handle and learn from your defeats. The losses I've had taught me so much because they humbled me. You learn more from them than you do your victories. They can only make you a better fighter and a better man.

Diego Sanchez

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

Charles Bukowski

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Ralph Washington Sockman

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

Matthew Thomas

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

Che Guevara

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.