„to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.“

— Marcus Garvey
„Ask me again, once we defeat Gaea.“
— Rick Riordan
„The much-publicized disunity on the Government side was not a main cause of defeat.“
— George Orwell
„Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you“
— Paramahansa Yogananda