Quotes
Quotes about Defeat
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.
I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. â¢Benito Mussolini In time of war the first casualty is truth. â¢Boake Carter Only the defeated and deserters go to war. â¢Henry David Thoreau All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
