The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“A thousand days of training to develop, ten thousand days of training to polish. You must examine all this well.” — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Also by training you will be able to freely control your own body, conquer men with your body, and with sufficient training… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“Among the people also, a sailor with a rudder or oars or a farmer with a spade and a hoe each in… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“This is the way for men who want to learn my strategy: 1. Do not think dishonestly. 2. The Way is in… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“Teaching people a large number of sword techniques254 is turning the way into a business of selling goods, making beginners believe that… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“Do not think dishonestly. The Way is in training. Become acquainted with every art. Know the Ways of all professions. Distinguish between… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists.… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share
“The heart of Stepping on the Sword, something used principally in the martial arts, is that even with bows and firearms, you must act… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share
“When you and your opponent are fighting and nothing is going right, nor is there progress, be of a mind to throw off your… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share
No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share
“If you do not chase in directly toward the place where your opponents have gathered, you will not make progress. And, if you start… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share
The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share
You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share
