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Fighting Quotes by Sun Tzu
- To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than…
- This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road…
- He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
- For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme…
- If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory,…
- When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before…
- Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.
- If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep…
- No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
- He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will…
- When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a…
- Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He…
- Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without…
- Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes…
- When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is…
- If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to…
- With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies.…
- The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
- If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger,…
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