Victory Defeat Quotes

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat. ~ Anna Wickham

History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps by only the most vocal men; it does not teach us whether the change was sound or whether the rejected view deserved to be rejected. Only an impartial analysis of the view in question, an analysis that is not dazzled by the victory or stunned by the defeat of the adherents of the view concerned could teach us anything regarding the worth of the view and hence regarding the meaning of the historical change. ~ Leo Strauss

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone. ~ Julien Gracq

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory
except a great defeat. ~ Duke Of Wellington

Not after one month, not after one week, not after one day, not after one hour, not even after one minute, only after one second is the best time for a defeated person to stand up and fight for his future victory! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. ~ Jozef Pilsudski

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ~ Sallust

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

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

Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor of victory, a large war chest -even if not the largest-is usually a necessary condition. Money may not guarantee victory, but the lack of it usually guarantees defeat. Without large sums, there is rarely much of a campaign, as poorly funded 'minor' candidates have repeatedly discovered. ~ Michael Parenti

An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory. ~ Mike Klepper

When you walk with Jesus, defeat turns into victory. ~ Beth Moore

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

It's amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. Laughter, pain, victory, defeat, friendship, fatigue, elation ... they're all there, but only to the person who's worn the uniform ~ Wendelin Van Draanen

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

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. ~ Bill Ayers

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory. ~ Antonio Gramsci

To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat. ~ Giulio Douhet

There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God. ~ Stanley Hauerwas

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. 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. ~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto

The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. ~ Gichin Funakoshi

In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics. ~ Frederick Lenz

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

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

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan ... I'm the responsible officer of the Government. ~ John F. Kennedy

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. ~ Honore De Balzac

We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat. ~ Dick Bennett

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

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

All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments. ~ Meera Uberoi

The calamities that are constantly being reported - battles, massacres, famines, revolutions - tend to inspire in the average person a feeling of unreality. One has no way of verifying the facts, one is not even fully certain that they have happened, and one is always presented with totally different interpretations from different sources. Probably the truth is discoverable, but the facts will be so dishonestly set forth in almost any newspaper that the ordinary reader can be forgiven either for swallowing lies or for failing to form an opinion. The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs. Since nothing is ever quite proved or disproved, the most unmistakable fact can be impudently denied. Moreover, although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge, the nationalist is often somewhat uninterested in what happens in the real world. What he wants is to feel that his own unit is getting the better of some other unit, and he can more easily do this by scoring off an adversary than by examining the facts to see whether they support him. ~ George Orwell

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats. ~ Ze Frank

If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. - Teddy Sumner ~ Ridley Pearson

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory. ~ Yamaoka Tesshu

Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. ~ Wendell Phillips

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it. ~ Dan Gable

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day. ~ Sam Donaldson

Victory and defeat are each of the same price. ~ Thomas Jefferson

A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself. ~ Floyd Patterson

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory. ~ Pat Buchanan

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

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore. ~ John Bolton

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ~ Winston Churchill

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living. ~ Leszek Kolakowski

Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live,
giving up victory and defeat. ~ Gautama Buddha

The greatest victory is defeat. ~ Henrik Ibsen

What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat. ~ Don Meyer

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories. ~ Rod Parsley

I took a closer look. There is no such thing as ignorance. Ignorance is nothing But my limited knowledge. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as defeat. Defeat is nothing But the inspirer Of my increasing will. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as death. Death is nothing But my strengthening And Dreaming rest. ~ Sri Chinmoy

The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory. ~ William Ritter

Every victory and success that God will give you will make others jealous; it will cause hatred and opposition as well ~ Sunday Adelaja

Escape was impossible. Victory even more so. Wulfgar's only thought and desire at that moment was to be spared the indignity and anguish of lycanthropy. Then Drizzt entered the room. ~ R.A. Salvatore

So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let your opponent show you how to defeat him ~ Wong Shun Leung

The incarnation means that for whatever reason God chose to let us fall . . . to suffer, to be subject to sorrows and death - he has nonetheless had the honesty and the courage to take his own medicine. . . . He can exact nothing from man that he has not exacted from himself. He himself has gone through the whole of human experience - from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair, and death. . . . He was born in poverty and . . . suffered infinite pain - all for us - and thought it well worth his while.4 Isaiah ~ Timothy J. Keller

The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind. ~ Swami Satchidananda

Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire. ~ David Harsanyi

- Vonotar, that unspeakable wretch, is responsible for my plight. Days before the Darklord invasion of Sommerlund, he betrayed your Kai masters to win power - the black power of death and darkness. However, he failed to play his part in the war plans his evil masters had laid. The Darklords do not tolerate such weakness - mercy has no place in their brutal minds. In the bitterness of defeat, they sought to destroy Vonotar for his crime of failure. Vonotar knew that I possessed the only means to effect an escape from their vengeance... ~ Joe Dever

Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces. ~ Robert Henri

He looked at her, but he was only a shadow now. Livia gave him a warning look. He shook his head sadly and in total defeat. Standing in the house of a man who'd brought him food, with his daughter holding his hand, seemed to break some sort of honor code for Blake.
Livia felt her heart beating in her ears. "Don't give up on me. Please," she said softly. ~ Debra Anastasia

Without a battle there is no victory. ~ John Arnott

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat. ~ Henry Cavill

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat. ~ Charlie Chaplin

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order. ~ Will Arnett

For the players to put their minds and vigour into the game is not enough for victory. They must also put in their souls. The team that gives up to the game all its strengths and puts into it its mind and soul cannot leave the court defeated. ~ Viacheslav Platonov

We claim the victory over the power of the enemy not by our might nor by our power, but by His Spirit, says the Lord (Zech. 4:6). Never - and I mean never - allow the enemy to convince you that your situation is hopeless. ~ Kimberly L Ray

When we pray we admit defeat. ~ Anthony Burgess

There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation. ~ Vera Brittain

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer. ~ Garry Kasparov

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. ~ Tom Landry

When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory. ~ Rufus Jones

The breaking point isn't the time to give up, it's the time to dig in. Pressure is being put on your seed. It's breaking forth and working to take root. Its creating an environment that will sustain it long term because the breaking point means harvest time is near and victory is imminent. Nevertheless, the pressure is real. This is the stage where many of us breakdown instead of breaking out. ~ Lynn R. Davis

The time was ordinary, 24 seconds, but the victory was historic. From that crowded little red house in Clarksville, out of an extended family of twenty-two kids, from a childhood of illness and leg braces, out of a small historically black college that had no scholarships, from a country where she could be hailed as a heroine and yet denied lunch at a counter, Skeeter had become golden, sweeping the sprints in Rome. ~ David Maraniss

Though everything that was not in the ark was destroyed (Genesis 7:21-23), the ultimate goal of the flood was not to destroy all life but to destroy the stranglehold of sin ... the flood did not aim to wipe out creation but to preserve it ... Destroying all creation would have signified the defeat of the Creator ... Not even the initial sin of Adam and Eve had derailed his plan, for he had immediately announced the future coming of the Saviour to crush the devil and bring in a new community that would celebrate his glory (Genesis 3:15). ~ Samuel Ngewa

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. ~ Bill Russell

Not an exact quote, more like an opinion, a thought. Dementors suck out happiness from people. The make people remember their worst moments in life. The way to defeat them / repel them is to cast a patronus charm, [incantation: expecto patronum. If my latin serves me right it means "I expect / I command my patron].
The difficulty lies in casting the charm while those foul creatures make you feel terrible and the charm only works if you can conjure up a most happy memory.
I suggest a new / additional interpretation of JK Rowling's idea:
Demen - tors are your inner demons that make you feel terrible, things you did in your life, terrible losses you experienced (Harry hears his mother's screams) and negative emotions.
Those inner demons TORment you and your soul. You can only escape those horrible impressions with an overwhelming positive force of imagination. Happy moments in your life, thoughts about friends, family, love and connection versus the horrible loneliness that your inner demons create. ~ ThomThor

In a clock the complex action of countless different wheels works its way out in the even, leisurely movement of hands measuring time; in a similar way the complex action of humanity in those 160,000 Russians and Frenchmen – all their passions, longings, regrets, humiliation and suffering, their rushes of pride, fear and enthusiasm – only worked its way out in defeat at the battle of Austerlitz, known as the battle of the three Emperors, the slow tick-tock of the age-old hands on the clock face of human history. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Defeat, if you survive it, should mean time for reflection. ~ Ob Nixilis

God will sometimes allow things to get bad enough that we will be forced to look up. Victory always begins with a cry for help. When we come to the end of ourselves and cry out for help, amazing things happen. ~ Beth Moore

Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat. ~ Albert Kesselring

When the sun sets at night and you lay your head down on your pillow, you must believe beyond the shadow of a doubt that your business will be successful. More than anyone, you, the business owner, should have incredible faith that you will experience prosperity. This journey is not about following a popular path that leads to fame and fortune, instead, it is about creating an extension of God's kingdom right here on earth. As beacons of light and salt of the earth, Christians should provide an example of what true victory means to the rest of the world. ~ V.L. Thompson

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. ~ Barbara Deming

Shahrzad closed her eyes in defeat and slid her palms to his chest. Then she reached behind him in an embrace of sandalwood and sun. Khalid wrapped both his arms around Shahrzad, and they stood together under the dome of the Grand Portico, with the indecipherable art of love poems giving silent testament. ~ Renee Ahdieh

The biggest challenge at the national level is to defeat communal forces for which the support of the Left parties was essential but the party is opposed to the Left in Kerala because UDF's aim is to ensure economic development and social harmony. ~ Sonia Gandhi

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime. ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

He'd thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little ... and that, more than anything - more than the prospect of having his ribs crushed in or his face pulled off or his neck stretched on a rope - scared him out of his wits. ~ V.S. Carnes

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat. ~ Suzy Kassem

I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses. ~ Alvin R. Dyer