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Sun Tzu Inspirational Quotes (271)

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If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.
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Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.
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On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.
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When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported.
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Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning by noonday it has begun to flag and in the evening, his mind is only on returning to camp.
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Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
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Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.
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Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.
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Great results, can be achieved with small forces.
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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him if five to one, to attack him if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.
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When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.
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Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.
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A leader leads by example not by force.
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The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.
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Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.
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Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.
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Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.
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Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy... By holding out advantages to him, he can cause the enemy to approach of his own accord or by inflicting damage, he can make it impossible for the enemy to draw near.
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Maneuvering with an army is advantageous with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.
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In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage.
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Attack the enemy's strategy.
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general.
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Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.
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