Sun Tzu Quotes, War Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

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

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You can ensure the success of your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. Therefore, that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

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Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.

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Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

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They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

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Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

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The best general is the one who never fights.

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There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

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All war is based on deception.

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

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In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.

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I will be able to forecast which side will be victorious and which defeated.

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the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

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It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

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Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

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At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.

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Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.

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Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

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Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

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