But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose read more

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank read more

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.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that read more

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

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

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

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.