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Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.

John F. Kennedy

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Ernest Hemingway

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Mary Renault

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Keller

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Paul Brown

The girlfriend and boyfriend were arrested for corruption and defeating the ends of justice.

Cynthia Kleinhans

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

Cesar Chavez

This defeat hurts because of the way it happened and because it broke our record of victories.

Lionel Messi

We represent the CVAC, but we also represent Coker. I'm happy for the win, but I'm also happy that we conducted ourselves with class in victory, as well as defeat.

Dave Schmotzer

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Malcolm S. Forbes

We hope to defeat it in the House and send it back to conference.

Carl Schmid

It was a crushing last-minute defeat. We thought we had the game won.

Skip Orr

A lot of hard work went into this defeat.

Malcolm Allison

We are going to defeat you in the budget process and debate process until you cry uncle.

Mark Souder

One of the things that's always brought up is that if you make too many cuts in transportation, you have higher absenteeism and that would defeat your purpose.

Steve Jennings

It was so disappointing for us and a painful defeat.

Xabi Alonso

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

Bern Williams

We think we can defeat the bill.

Jasmine Harris

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Tom Landry

South Africa is not getting ready to attack anybody and defeat them.

Mosiuoa Lekota

Viruses have a way of defeating our plans and that's something everyone is going to have to be aware of.

Mike Cooke

She was never going to say she couldn't do something. She would never accept defeat.

Vivian Covard

Iraq must turn back from the dangerous and self-defeating course it has chosen.

Peter Burleigh

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Quintilian

...and even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet...' Still D.R.E.

Dr Dre

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

William Mckinley

Retreat usually leads to defeat.

Ben Manski

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

Russell Crowe

Mobilize people to vote and to re-elect Clinton as the only way to defeat.

Gus Hall

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

Roy M. Cohn

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Saul Bellow

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

Jeff Greenfield

Not celebrating Mardi Gras would have been a defeat.

Sandra Shilstone

Mark a defeat for democracy.

Paul Tyler

We experienced the classic cliche -- the thrill of victory and agony of defeat.

Mike Skelton

That issue certainly didn't defeat us.

Joe Hunter

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Christy Mathewson

It was a very hard defeat to swallow.

Charles Rush

We have been able to defeat some teams that were troublesome for us last year.

Sean O'connor

I really don't consider this a defeat because I am skating better and better every race.

Shani Davis

The Conservatives did a much better job learning from their defeat [in 2004] than the Liberals did from their victory.

Nelson Wiseman

George W. Bush should concede defeat.

Peter Deutsch

I'm very proud of the part I played in defeating the Japanese.

Thomas Cosgrove

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Abdul Kalam

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

Patrick Buchanan

I don't have any explanation for this defeat. I'm stunned, and I don't know what to say.

Laurent Fournier

We will fight a war against this danger to protect our independence and we will defeat it at every level.

Shaukat Aziz

It's a clear defeat for the bill's supporters in the Assembly.

Tim Rosales

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

G. Gordon Liddy

He was indefatigably cheerful. He was very gracious in defeat.

Sherwood Chillingworth

We can't yet claim a victory but I'm certainly not conceding defeat.

Don Brash

Defeat would not be a shame, ... This is a competition.

Mathieu Kerekou

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

Dick Vermeil

The outcome and consequences of defeat are greater than World War II.

Richard Myers

We are 100 percent sure that we're going to defeat them -- if it comes to an election.

Darrell Jefferson

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Mao Zedong

I don't want to be saying we nearly won again, because the margin of defeat does not matter.

David Gray

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

Edward Teller

In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.

Edward Marsh

He's most vulnerable now. The more times he's able to win in this district, the more difficult it will be to defeat him.

Ed Patru