John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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Conor McGregor (1988) Irish mixed martial artist and boxer
UFC 178 post-event press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAC34JzxS0 (September 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC <br class="br">2010s, 2014
“To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.”
Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935) Polish politician and Prime Minister
(Late 1920s or the 1930s) Zbigniew Brzezinski in his introduction to Wacław Jędrzejewicz’s Piłsudski: A Life For Poland. Quoted from this website http://members.lycos.co.uk/jozefpilsudski/index2.html <br class="br">Attributed
“I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 79
Original: Levo comigo a consciência da derrota como um pendão de vitória.
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”
Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician
Statement to Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference (12 January 1919), as quoted in The Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations (1993) by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan Paul Siegel, p. 689
Prime Minister
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”
Albert Pike (1809–1891) Confederate States Army general and Freemason
This is more commonly attributed to Georges Clemenceau, and the earliest published attribution to Pike is in 2008, without citation of sources.
Misattributed
“I had no taste for defeat — much less victory — without a fight.”
Yukio Mishima book Sun and Steel
Source: Sun and Steel (1968), p. 49.
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
"Remarks at a Closed-circuit Television Broadcast on Behalf of the National Cultural Center (527)" (29 November 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx <br class="br">1962
