Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
“How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.”
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
“A nation that forgets its past has no future.”
“The first and the best victory is to conquer self.”
“We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.”
“With great victory comes great sacrifice.”
“I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.”
“I see for Nature no defeatIn one tree's overthrowOr for myself in my retreatFor yet another blow.”
“There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.”