"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided……" — Sun Tzu
"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
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407 Quotes by Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu has 407 quotes on this site.
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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
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All war is deception.
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One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
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To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or…
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This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe…
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Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's…
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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact;…
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
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All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which…
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Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
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It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration…
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In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal…
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I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my…
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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings…
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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
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The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big…
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of…
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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the…
— Henry George
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up,…
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