Art Quote by Sun Tzu

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely…

— Mahatma Gandhi

An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than that person's…

— George Washington

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the…

— 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

“This is how command passes from a weak officer to a stronger. No rank alters; no papers are filed. Without a word, every man…

— Steven Pressfield

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

— Sun Tzu

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

— Charles de Gaulle

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time…

— Edmund Burke

Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the almost similar…

— Kofi Annan

If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders…

— Sun Tzu

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…

— Sun Tzu

“I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these…

— Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord