Defeat Into Victory Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

Erich Segal

#3. Non-engagement or retreat can turn certain defeat into victory.

Bryant McGill

#4. grinned. 'Xenophon taught me that victory is achieved by putting the thought of defeat into the heart of your enemy. To him goes the honour.

David Gemmell

#5. All through the day, there are two voices that compete for your attention - the voice of faith and the voice of defeat. Tune into the voice of faith because it is the voice of victory!

Victoria Osteen

#6. 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

#7. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. We all experience doubts and fears as we approach new challenges. The fear diminishes with the confidence that comes from experience and faith. Sometimes you just have to go for it and see what happens. Jumping into the battle does not guarantee victory, but being afraid to try guarantees defeat

Brian Goodell

#9. Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

Robert G. Allen

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

Kenneth E. Hagin

#11. Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. You must understand that by this time the only choice was among several varieties of defeat, but the town in question rejected compromise and would settle for nothing but victory. That was not reason talking; that was the voice of litost!

Milan Kundera

#13. Victory and defeat are found in the same entity

Thabiso Monkoe

#14. Defeat is a disease, and victory is the cure.

Anonymous

#15. If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone De Beauvoir

#16. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

Eduardo Galeano

#17. We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail. Or are pushed into failure by the rash and the foolish. Victory is better than defeat, but ... not by much.

Joe Abercrombie

#18. 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

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

Anna Wickham

#20. We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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

Willard Gaylin

#22. Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves

Rorion Gracie

#23. It is much better to dare great things, to celebrate great triumphs, even when you have had failures along the way, then to get into the line of the cold and timid souls who experience neither joy nor pain because they live in the gray zone in which there is neither victory nor defeat." Winners

Bodo Schafer

#24. When you walk with Jesus, defeat turns into victory.

Beth Moore