Sun Tzu Quotes, Wise Quotes, Clever Quotes

When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Wise Quotes , Clever Quotes

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Virtue Quotes

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Order Quotes , Confusion Quotes

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Athlete Quotes , Warrior Quotes

Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Enemy Quotes

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Thank You Quotes , Veterans Day Quotes

Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Army Quotes , People Quotes

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War 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

Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Country Quotes , Soldier Quotes

So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Military Quotes , Water Quotes

A warrior who is prepared to fight must also be prepared to die.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Warrior Quotes

One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Punishment Quotes , Stupidity Quotes

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Conflict Quotes