It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.