"There could be no honor in sure success,……" — T.E. Lawrence

"There could be no honor in sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat."

— T.E. Lawrence

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42 Quotes by T.E. Lawrence

T.E. Lawrence has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to…
It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has…
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting…
To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,
The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in…

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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges… — Michelle Bachelet
When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to… — Michele Bachmann
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. — Russell Baker
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their… — Conrad Black
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be… — Tony Blair
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until… — Bjorn Borg
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to… — Abdallah II
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the… — Bertolt Brecht
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to… — Robert Browning

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