Quotes on Victory 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 has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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 was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.