The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists.
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.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.