An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Defeat is a state of mind. You are defeated only when you accept defeat, and assume the hopeless mindset of a defeated person.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.