Knowing Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

— Ernest Hemingway

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

— Sun Tzu

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle … They conquer by strategy.

— Sun Tzu

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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

— Winston Churchill

What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.

— Sun Tzu

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of…

— Miyamoto Musashi

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

— Aristophanes