Sun Tzu Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Sun Tzu
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“Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.”
Army Quotes
“The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.”
Army Quotes
“So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.”
Conflict Quotes
“Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.”
Fate Quotes
“To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
Fighting Quotes
“If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.”
Fighting Quotes
“So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.”
Military Quotes
“The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.”
Order Quotes
“Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack.”
Victory Quotes
“The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.”
Quality Quotes
“Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?”
Inspirational Quotes
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