If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

At the same time, I learned that you always lose. Only the rascals think they win.

victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live,
giving up victory and defeat.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Kinnock was dead.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

But I live, I <i>live</i>, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always.

When we make it win-or-lose, everyone loses.

Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat.

In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat.

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

every failure is also a victory.