Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.
What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.
The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.
Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.
Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.
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.
Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.
People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.