Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

It’s nice when little teams win.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‚Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?‘

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn’t deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

My first win feels better than a draw!

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

There is no substitute for victory.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

I do not pilfer victory.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Losing is tough.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.