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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
Sep 17, 2025
Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.
Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.
I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That brought me experience and it will help me a lot to gain the desired world title.
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.
See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the revolving of nature. It is the same with human life. Victory and defeat are one in the vast stream of life. Victory is the beginning of defeat, and who can rest safely in victory? Impermanence is the nature of all things of this world. Even you will find your ill fortunes too will change. It is easy to understand the impatience of the old, whose days are numbered, but why should you young ones fret when the future is yours?
You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.
Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.
You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.
People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
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.
You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. It’s ok to cry..!! You can overcome
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.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.
Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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."
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.
The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.
What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to know anybody else named Rudyard. But having been bitten in my life 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.
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.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.
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.
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
There’s no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. Serpine will have won only when there is no one left to stand against him. Until then, there is only the struggle, because tides do what tides do–they turn.
I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.
Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair play, respect for the rules and traditions of the sport and various traits of good character including integrity (abiding by the letter and spirit of the rules and concepts of honor); demonstrated respect for others including teammates, opponents, officials and spectators; accountability, self-control, and graciousness in victory and defeat.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.