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Victory Defeat Quotes

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win. Paulo Coelho
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it..."
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) Mahatma Gandhi
Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn’t a chance of winning. But now that we are losing again, everything has taken a turn for the better, and we will certainly come out on top again if we succeed in being defeated. Joseph Heller
Malcolm Forbes quote: "Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. Malcolm Forbes
Sun Tzu quote: "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while..."
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sun Tzu
Edwin Markham quote: "Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let..."
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. Edwin Markham
Galeazzo Ciano quote: "Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan."
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. Galeazzo Ciano
Pat Buchanan quote: "Defeat has its lessons as well as victory."
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory. Pat Buchanan
John F. Kennedy quote: "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy
It is a child speaking," said Merlin, "not a king and not a knight, but a hurt and angry child, or you would know, my lord, that there is more to a king than a crown, and far more to a knight than a sword. You were a knight when you grappled Pellinore unarmed."And he defeated me."You were a knight," said Merlin. "Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat... John Steinbeck
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory. John Steinbeck
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party. Hannah Arendt
There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us. Che Guevara
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. Plato
Bertolt Brecht quote: "The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't..."
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. Bertolt Brecht

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