Dynamics
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. (Henry Ward Beecher)
There are defeats more triumphant than victories. (Montaigne)
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. (George Eliot)
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. (Pyrrhus)
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. (Churchill)
He got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for. (Cervantes)
Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? (Bible)
We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph. (T S Eliot)