Source: The Magnificent Defeat
“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
Quotes, Concession speech (2000)
Context: I've seen America in this campaign, and I like what I see. It's worth fighting for and that's a fight I'll never stop. As for the battle that ends tonight, I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out."
“To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.”
(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
Attributed
Preface, p. 14
Practical Mysticism (1914)
“Defeat your defeats, and never come back your feet.”
Lahore: History and Architecture of Mughal Monuments Oxford University Press, (16 April 2016)
“He refers to a defeat as if it came from God, but a victory as if it came from himself.”
Speaking about Winston Churchill
Attributed
Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 122
