Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.

Because no battle is ever won. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. Be different!

If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.

You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

If you don’t fight you can’t get it.

There is no gain without struggle.

Fight not to win, but to avoid losing. A surefire losing strategy.

Winning is better than losing, but everybody loses when the war isn’t one worth fighting.

Everything worth fighting for is gained without fighting.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

How do you decide a battle is lost? Numbers, strategic advantage, positioning? It's all worth a sparrow's fart. It comes down to men who are willing. The largest army will founder if its men are less willing to die than to win.