Top 100 Defeat To Victory Quotes
#1. My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
James Longstreet
#2. We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.
John A. Daly
#3. 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.
Rupert Holmes
#4. same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, "although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge," wrote Orwell, tends to be "uninterested in what happens in the real world." Nationalism
Timothy Snyder
#5. Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
Rosa Parks
#6. After a Great Victory.-The best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. " Why should I not be worsted for once ? " he says to himself, " I am now rich enough to stand it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. 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
#8. Of preparing for defeat, prepare for victory. Prepare for increase. Prepare for God's favor. You have to set the tone at the start of each day.
Joel Osteen
#9. 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
#10. In battle, it is not the strongest or the bravest or those with the greater numbers who win. Victory belongs to the side that best understands the price of defeat.
Shatrujeet Nath
#11. Whatever happened to "In victory, magnanimity; in defeat, defiance." So said Frederick the Great.
George Carlin
#12. I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.
Jose Mourinho
#13. There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
Tony Benn
#14. I know not how to defeat others, I only know how to win over myself. The real and most dangerous opponents we face in life are fear, anger, confusion, doubt and despair. If we overcome those enemies who attack from within , we can attain a sure victory over any attack from without.
Chris Bradford
#15. So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I
have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.
Herbert Hoover
#16. To make the fastest progress,
Be an absolutely cheerful
Hero-warrior
And take both victory and failure
As parallel experience rivers
Leading to the sea
Of progress-delight.
Sri Chinmoy
#17. Do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat
Sun Tzu
#18. You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure.
Joseph Prince
#19. A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat ... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.
Bill Bradley
#20. To be miles from defeat you have to be taking steps to victory.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. 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
#22. Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.
Ellen Key
#23. Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu
#25. A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
James Ellis
#26. Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#28. Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it
Roald Amundsen
#29. Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be conquered, victory or defeat. Anything less is to be forgotten to history.
Jeffrey Fry
#30. Every happiness is a bright ray between shadows, every gaiety bracketed by grief. There is no birth that does not recall a death, no victory but brings to mind a defeat.
Geraldine Brooks
#31. Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.
Orrin Woodward
#32. The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.
Chester W. Nimitz
#33. On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self.
Akira Toriyama
#34. Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.
Archilochus
#35. 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.
Francis Picabia
#36. Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
#37. Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery of what sort of place the world really is. Others must look forward to death by defeat - their bodies gone, their world destroyed.
Carlos Baker
#38. People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#39. To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.
Jozef Pilsudski
#40. Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.
Democritus
#41. This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory.
Malcolm Bradbury
#42. In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Robert Collier
#43. We wanted peace. We did not care about anyone's victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#44. Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational air force units. It was also the first war in history in which air power was used to defeat ground forces.
Merrill McPeak
#45. You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.
Joel Osteen
#46. He considered the importance of what he was to do, and calmed himself. He felt the dragon's mood and acknowledged it. It was a willingness to accept whatever fate brought, but without a resignation to defeat. Death might come, but with it might also come victory.
Raymond E. Feist
#47. Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#48. I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.
Jessie Pavelka
#49. 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.
Charles Stanley
#50. On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick William Robertson
#51. I renew my call for the occupier (the United States) to leave our land. The departure of the occupier will mean stability for Iraq, victory for Islam and peace and defeat for terrorism and infidels.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#52. But he clung to hope, to faith in life, to the victory of the virtuous, to the defeat of evil.
Zane Grey
#53. It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.
Floyd Patterson
#54. 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
#55. To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.
Giulio Douhet
#56. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!" Alisher
Sergei Lukyanenko
#57. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
#58. Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#59. 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
#60. In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I've lived to see my lost causes found.
Pauli Murray
#61. But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.
David Axelrod
#62. There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!
Sergei Lukyanenko
#63. I'm not yet defeated, just waiting for my next turn to throw the dice again.
Neetesh Dixit
#64. May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.
Celeste Cooper
#65. Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
Henry Ward Beecher
#66. Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.
Ogwo David Emenike
#67. I've never considered the possibility of defeat. I've never planned for it. That's the job for those people who plan for such things. My job is to only plan for success ... victory; it has my complete focus.
Spuds Crawford
#68. They have seen Death and ultimate defeat,
and yet they would not in despair retreat,
but oft to victory have tuned the lyre
and kindled hearts with legendary fire,
illuminating Now and dark Hath-been
with light of suns as yet by no man seen.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#69. What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
Orison Swett Marden
#70. We are not, therefore, to regard the cross as defeat and the resurrection as victory. Rather, the cross was the victory won, and the resurrection the victory endorsed, proclaimed and demonstrated.
John R.W. Stott
#71. There is no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost; there is victory and defeat. There are no absolutes. Everything inbetween is left to fight for.
Derek Landy
#72. Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.
(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919)
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.
Jane Bowles
#74. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu
#75. I cannot expiate my sin, yet I am compelled to try. My mind will not let me rest. There must be something I could have done, some way I could have acted, something I could have changed to snatch victory from bitter defeat.
Juliet Marillier
#76. 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.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#77. Better for a man to fail, he said, even to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Timothy Egan
#78. Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
#79. The game's the thing. That's the conventional wisdom, isn't it? The fun is what matters, not the victory. To glory in the defeat of another, to need that purchased pride, is to show you are incomplete and inadequate to start with.
Iain M. Banks
#80. It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.
Alan Keyes
#81. 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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#83. He was flooded with power - power like pain. When it rises beyond any possible point of pleasure - like victory. Like defeat, like hopelessness and hope. And he stayed there, for an eternity, balanced between all and nothing.
Like love when love is too much to bear.' - The Red Knight
Miles Cameron
#84. I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.
Floyd Patterson
#85. Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
Dejan Stojanovic
#86. Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.
Yamaoka Tesshu
#87. Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.
Winston Churchill
#88. Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat.
Alan W. Watts
#89. The only way you're going to be defeated is if you allow your brain to shut down your body. If you stop making progress, you're damned.
Toni Sorenson
#90. 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
#91. It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
Karl Popper
#92. I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.
Alexander Alekhine
#93. 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.
Walter Lord
#94. It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.
Daisaku Ikeda
#95. My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.
Tim Howard
#96. Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#97. There are many paths to victory; choose the shortest one! There are many paths to defeat; choose the longest one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
William Hartston
#99. Winners never suffer defeat, but rather just many setbacks on their way to victory.
Orrin Woodward
#100. What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means a tragedy, but to consider it as a tragedy is in fact the greatest tragedy! In your every defeat, you must know that the paths of the victory never disappear; try those roads again!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
