Quotes in Defeat

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


A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

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Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.


Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

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