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 cha...

If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you. - Paulo Coelho Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Diane Arbus And now we celebrate, in victory bound, The feast of feasts: Friend Zarathustra came, the guest of guests! Now laughs the world, the ancient curtain's torn, And light and darkness wedded are as one.. - Friedrich Nietzsche These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. - William Shakespeare I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed. - Mahatma Gandhi If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding. - Sun Tzu There's a gentle sigh which d...