The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
A fighter can always recover, and you never know what they're going to come back with.
My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.
When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it's never really been good for them.
This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.