Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
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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
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
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
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
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
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