Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it's understanding the necessity of both; it's engaging. It's being all in.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

You are fantastic at problem-solving, but without wisdom, you can only see your victories, which means you cannot learn your defects.

How many times have we set the stage for our greatest defeats? And how many times did victory elude us because we chose to deny that fact?

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one else can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by everything evil or commonplace that prevailed round about them. They represent a struggle and a victory. I can see that picture of what we were at an earlier stage may not be recognisable and cannot, certainly, be pleasing to contemplate in later life. But we must not repudiate it, for it is a proof that we have really lived, that it is in accordance with the laws of life and of the mind that we have, from the common elements of life, of the life of studios, of artistic groups-assuming one is a painter-extracted something that transcends them.

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

Color is the overpowering of black; white ? the final victory over black.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Far better it is to dare mighty 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 live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

"As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes, all of which we have just witnessed.

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked?The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on?There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Look within and recognize the power God has given you. You will be surprised how victorious you can be under any circumstances.

Against all odds, if you still persist and create your art, it will be a victory! It will be your victory. Finally, you would win.

Continue going after your dreams because you deserve them; life has many incredible experiences ahead of you. Today's obstacles are tomorrow's victories, and tomorrow's breakthroughs are today's possibilities.

You will struggle. You will be mocked. You will be alone. The world will not give you recognition. The world will not give you, your due. Against all odds, if you still persist and create your art, it will be a victory. It will be your victory. Finally, you would win.

The victory over self is centered entirely on the surrender of self to the God from whom the entirety of oneself finds itself.

To surrender our lives to God is the most phenomenal victory that any surrender could ever achieve.