Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming…

“There’s a victory that looks like defeat.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

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…

— Plato

I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.

— Walter Russell

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

— Napoleon Hill

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

— Thomas Carlyle

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

— Orhan Pamuk

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away…

— George MacDonald

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin.…

— Winston Churchill

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

— Indira Gandhi

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

— Charles Bukowski

I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the…

— Tom Dunne

At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis!

— Walter Smith

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

— Anonymous

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

— Elvis Costello

Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists,…

— Cyrano de Bergerac