Victory And Defeat Quotes - Page 2

• You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting

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• 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."

  Al Gore

  Failure, Loss, Political

  Al Gore's Presidential Concession speech, www.americanrhetoric.com. December 13, 2000.

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• We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

  Rumi

  Pieces, Chess, Engaged

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Suffering, Coward

  "The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson".

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• 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.

  Sarah Palin

  Sports, Team, Opportunity

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• Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Giving Up, Military

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• 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.

  Derek Landy

  Struggle, Fighting, Winning

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.181, HarperCollins UK

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• 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?

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Prayer, World, Sun

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• The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Real, Night

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• You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

  Matthew Thomas

  Victory, Defeat, This Life

  Matthew Thomas (2014). “We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

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• We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Endurance

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• 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.

  Richard Wagner

  War, Men, Blood

  Richard Wagner (1966). “Prose works”

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• 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

  War, Should Have, World

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• 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.

  Anderson Silva

  Titles, Stories, World

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• 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.

  Rupert Holmes

  Ice Cream, Add, Pecans

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• The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fighting, Imagination, Location

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• 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.

  Michael Josephson

  Sports, Respect, Attitude

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

  Winston Churchill

  War, Problem, Conflict

  Winston Churchill, Colin Coote, Ryōichi Amano (1965). “チャ-チル名言集”

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• What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Challenges, Curiosity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 26, 2014

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• Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sports, Victory Defeat, Motivational Sports

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• People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

  John Bolton

  People, Victory, Defeat

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• 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.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Success, Peace, Freedom

  United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4, February 15, 1954.

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• 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

  Home, Thinking, Competition

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• If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

  Robert Torricelli

  Adversity, Long, Experience

  "Starr: Independent Counsel Act should not be renewed". www.cnn.com. April 14, 1999.

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• If you can accept losing, you can't win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Football, Winning

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