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Strength Quotes by Sun Tzu
- To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful... It does not take much strength to lift a hair, it does…
- Carefully study the well-being of your men, and do not overtax them. Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength. Keep your army continually on the…
- When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a…
- Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.
- These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline;…
- 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…
- An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength…
- When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And…
- If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental,…
- It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide…
- One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.
- The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained…
- Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.
- Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is…
- Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.
- Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent…
- Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.
- Probe him and learn where his strength is abundant and where deficient.
- If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them.
- Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
More Strength Quotes
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Our passion is our strength. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- I have always drawn strength from being close to home. — Arthur Ashe
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi