It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a…

“There is no easy victory, but God can always make victory seem easy.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

— James Allen

“Circumstance does not make a man, it reveals him.”

— Newberry, Tommy

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

— Rabindranath Tagore

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“The wise man reveals more than words spoken.”

— Toba Beta

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt…

— Arthur Golden

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

— George A. Sheehan

Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up.

— George A. Sheehan

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

— Ernest Hemingway

“You cannot defeat a strong man who believes in himself. He cannot be pushed down, cannot be ridiculed down, talked down, or written down.…

— Orison Swett Marden

I respect Demetrious Johnson to the fullest. I wouldn't travel the world and find different training partners and coaches to help me defeat this…

— Henry Cejudo

“…and the mousesized mousecolored spinster trembling and aghast at her own temerity, staring across it at the childless bachelor in whom ended that long…

— William Faulkner

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

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“No, let us not conquer the heavens. It is enough to have the power to do so. War engenders war, and victory defeat. God,…

— Anatole France