“we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.”
“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”
Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
Galeazzo Ciano (1946) The Ciano Diaries, 1939-1943. Milan: Rizzoli. p. 594; Original cited in: Emerging Infectious diseases. Vol 2, Nr 1, Jan.-March 1996. p. 61
Original: Come sempre, la vittoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.
“In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.”
(Late 1920s or the 1930s) Zbigniew Brzezinski in his introduction to Wacław Jędrzejewicz’s Piłsudski: A Life For Poland. Quoted from this website http://members.lycos.co.uk/jozefpilsudski/index2.html
Attributed
Source: The Magnificent Defeat
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Context: People with intelligence will use it to fashion things both true and false and will try to push through whatever they want with their clever reasoning. This is injury from intelligence. Nothing you do will have effect if you do not use truth.
In affairs like law suits or even in arguments, by losing quickly one will lose in fine fashion. It is like sumo. If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.
“Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Defeat
“In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
