Top 1200 Victory Defeat Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

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.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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

I think coaches should get the same amount of credit in victory that they get in defeat.

The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.

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

I've no doubt about the attitude of the players. Everything moves quickly in football; we coaches move on quickly from victory and defeat.

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?

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

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.

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!

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

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.

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

Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.

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

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

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

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

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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.

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

My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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.

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

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

I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy".

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

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

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

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.

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

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

Conservatives have always been forthright about our views, whether they brought defeat in 1964 or victory in 1980.

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

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

Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.

Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

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

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.

Find me anybody in comics who has a longer history of yanking defeat from the jaws of victory than Bruce Banner.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.