There are many victories worse than a defeat.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
In the environmental movement every time you lose a battle it's for good but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
There are going to be little victories that we claim even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.
There's a victory and defeat the first and best of victories the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another but of himself.