Quotes on Fighting Battles

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

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