Horatio Nelson
Admiral
"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."
Victory And Defeat quotes
Victory And Defeat
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"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."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will."
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"Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats."
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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."
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"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."
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"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."
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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.""
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"Victory and defeat are each of the same price."
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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."
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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."
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"Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win."
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"We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!"
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"What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats."
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