defeat
Giving up
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
~ Marilyn von Savant
Defeat may serve as well as victory
“Defeat may serve as well as victory
to shake the soul and let the glory out.”~ Edwin Markham
Defeat is not the worst of failures
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ~ George Woodbury