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The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.
Theodor Mommsen
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Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.


Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Tags: Your World Many
I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.
Bronte Campbell
Tags: Good Very Thing
Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.
Ellen Key
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.


Galeazzo Ciano
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Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.


Winston Churchill
Tags: Had Never Before
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.


Jean-Paul Sartre
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.


Jean-Paul Sartre
Tags: You Hard Once
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
Stanley Hauerwas
Tags: God Our Makes
My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.
Tim Howard
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People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Alfred North Whitehead
Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.
Thomas S. Monson
Tags: God Our Love
I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings to life - are hard illusions to shake off. Look at me, a war correspondent.
Michael Hastings
Tags: War Me Life
Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
Vicente del Bosque
Tags: You People Know
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You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.


James Larkin
Tags: You Your Own
I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.
Jessie Pavelka
Tags: Like Just Get
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
Hernan Cortes
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
Neil Sheehan
Tags: God Home War
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Leanness of body and soul may go together.


John Owen
Tags: Go May Together