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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
Sep 17, 2025
Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.
Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
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.
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
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.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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.
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.
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