QUOTES
ON DEFEAT AND VICTORY
Before having a look at some famous
quotes on defeat and victory, let us familiarize ourselves with the literal
meanings of these two words.
According to dictionaries defeat
means to win a victory over an opponent in a battle, game, or contest. As a
verb, this word also means : to frustrate, to thwart, or to render something ineffective.
Defeat may also be defined as an
unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest.
Some synonyms of defeat are: downfall,
debacle, failure, breakdown, ruin, setback, discomfiture, rejection, and
overthrow.
Victory is the opposite of defeat.
It means the successful outcome of a contest, war, game, struggle, competition,
battle, election, etc.
Win, success, triumph, conquest,
mastery, subjugation, romp, gain, sweep, landslide, overthrow, upper hand,
clean sweep, etc., are some of its synonyms.
What follows are some famous quotes
-- first on defeat and then on victory.
*Defeat is a school in which truth
always grows strong. ---American clergy, H..W.Beecher
(1813-87).
*It is defeat that turns bone to
flint, and gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible, and formed those heroic
natures that are now in ascendency in the world. Do not then be afraid of
defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good
cause.----H. W. Beecher .
*Victories that are easy are
cheap.---Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.-----H.
W. Beecher.
*It is the contest that delights us,
not the victory. We are pleased with the combat of animals, but not with the
victor tearing the vanquished. What is sought for is the crisis of victory, and
the instant it comes, it brings satiety.-------- French mathematician and philosopher
Blaise Pascal 1623-62).
*Who
overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.-----English poet John Milton (1608-1674).
To conclude, here is a very short but meaningful quote:
“Victory is always possible for the
person who refuses to stop fighting.”
*****
G.R.Kanwal
4th November 2026
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