“If we go into battle with a mindset of defeat, we will come out of the battle defeated.”

“If a man feared defeat, he would never give battle... Every victory is inevitably succeeded by defeat. It is the nature of our lives. A man might fight a thousand battles and emerge triumphant from every one; still, he will suffer defeat in the end, for we die and we are forgotten. If we cannot face defeat, we must live always, throughout our lives, in fear. For it awaits us all.”

“Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.”

“It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.”

“It is regrettable to spend one's life in a battle that ends with no victory nor defeat, to consume it in another battle that ends with a defeat, and in a third that ends with his victory over his brother.”

“Those who do not see the truth in battle march willingly to defeat.”