Age Quote by Edward Gibbon

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

— Og Mandino

Gradually, you can deprive him of these; and for every hundred thousand productive laborers he loses, you may have a hundred thousand soldiers.

— Robert Owen

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

— Michel de Montaigne

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

— Maya Angelou

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again.…

— Tony Benn

Victorious men of earth, no more Proclaim how wide your empires are; Though you bind in every shore And your triumphs reach as far…

— James Shirley

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

— Beilby Porteus

“Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won, and what…

— M.L. Stedman

...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might…

— William Faulkner

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.”

— Maya Angelou