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Best Battle Quotes by Sun Tzu
- The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the…
- Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.
- Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.
- Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.
- If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle
- If a battle can not be won do not fight it.
- Every battle is won before it is fought.
- Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.
- If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
- All battles are won before they start.
- Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a…
- Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form…
- In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics,…
- To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer…
- You cannot know if you will be successful or not. You can only prepare for battle and it must be done with all of your…
- Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not…
- The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations…
- To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
- Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
- The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.
- Know yourself and you will win all battles.
- Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.
- It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not…
- In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle,…
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