“So was victory turned into defeat, and Billy's jaw became squarer and his eye more full of the light of battle than ever.”
Psmith, Journalist (1915)
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“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
Book I, Ch. 30. Of Cannibals
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A well-fought defeat is worth more than a casual victory.”
Una derrota peleada vale más que una victoria casual.
100 Masones Su Palabra (2010)
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
Speech in the House of Commons, November 11, 1942 Debate on the address http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1942/nov/11/debate-on-the-address#column_39.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.”
Reality http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/reality-168/
From the poems written in English
“What is destined to happen will happen. Victory and defeat are like light and darkness.”
His own family toppled him, quoted in Obituary: N. T. Rama Rao, 19 January 1996, 8 January 2014, Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-n-t-rama-rao-1324748.html,
As quoted in Honor Your Gifts (2007) by Dona M. Deane, p. 199.
Variant: 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
“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
All Men are Mortal (1946)
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 122
Bhagavad Gita, Ch II, verse 38
Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Ch. I-VI, 2013