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

‚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.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

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

The victor belongs to the spoils.

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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

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

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.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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

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.‘

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

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

I do not pilfer victory.

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

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.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

There is no substitute for victory.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

It’s nice when little teams win.

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

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Losing is tough.

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

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

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

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

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

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.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

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

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

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

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

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

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

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

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

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.