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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

My first win feels better than a draw!

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

In war there is no substitute for victory.

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

There is no substitute for 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.

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

It’s nice when little teams win.

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.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

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.

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

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

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

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

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

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

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

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.

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

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.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

‚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 grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

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.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

I do not pilfer victory.

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

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.

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.