Being a good leader Quote by Polybius

“Some battles don’t have a winner. Sometimes the best a good general can hope for is a ceasefire”

— Emma Chase

To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really…

— Sun Tzu

If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A general may succeed for some time in persuading his superiors that he is a good commander: he will never”

— Field Marshal Archibald wavell

A strong man understands some battles cannot be won, but a wise man can see that some battles are actually not battles at all.

— Ash Sweeney

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

— Rick Riordan

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

— Douglas MacArthur

Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

— Charles de Gaulle

He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.

— Sun Tzu

Victory is often achieved by people who don't see failure as a bad thing.

— Anonymous

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and…

— Napoleon Bonaparte