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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

— Steven Brust

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

— Winston Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

— Winston Churchill

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

— Orison Swett Marden

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

— Napoleon Hill

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

— Al Lewis

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

— Samuel Smiles

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

— Robert H. Schuller

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

— Al Gore

✗Opposing Perspectives

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

— Marilyn vos Savant