Victory And Defeat Quotes

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.
- Plato

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
- John Bolton

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
- Pat Conroy

Having in my life been bitten 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.
- Rupert Holmes

There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. Serpine will have won only when there is no one left to stand against him. Until then, there is only the struggle, because tides do what tides dothey turn.
- Derek Landy

Thus strategists hesitate over the map, the few pins and lines of coloured chalk, contemplating a change in the pins and lines, a matter of inches, which outside the room, out of sight of the studious officers, may engulf the past, present and future in ruin or life. She was a symbol to herself then, lacking the life of both child and woman; victory and defeat were changes of pin and line; she knew nothing of war.
- Evelyn Waugh

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
- Horatio Nelson