If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.