Sun Tzu Quotes, Art Quotes, War Quotes

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , Fighting Quotes

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Life Quotes , Strength Quotes

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Winning Quotes , Ignorant Quotes

Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , Military Quotes

Weigh the situation, then move.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Moving Quotes

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Soldier Quotes , Ladders Quotes

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Winning Quotes

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Fate Quotes

The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Wise Quotes , Art Quotes

As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , Military Quotes

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Fall Quotes

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

Attack the enemy's strategy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Enemy Quotes

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Army Quotes

We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Punishment Quotes