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When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Robert Collier

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

— Sun Tzu

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.

— Sun Tzu

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

— Benjamin Disraeli

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

— Richard M. Nixon

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

— Saint Ambrose

If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.

— Jo Durie

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

✗Opposing Perspectives

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

— W. Clement Stone

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

— Francis Quarles