Sun Tzu Quotes

Sun Tzu Quote

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Sun Tzu

Imagination, Imagine

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu

Fear, Yourself, Enemy

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.
Sun Tzu

Point, Fate, Director

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu

War, Art, Enemy

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Against, Lies

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu

Fight, Cannot, Knows

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

You have to believe in yourself.
Sun Tzu

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu

War, Win, While

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun Tzu

Men, Victory, Conquer

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu

Multiply, Seized

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

Enemy, Self, Thousand

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Fighting, Excellence

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Win, Fighting

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
Sun Tzu

Yourself, Enemy, Fight

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

Death, Children, Stand

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Sun Tzu

Victory, Lies, Attack

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

Arrogance, Encourage, Pretend

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

Enemy, Fight, Fighting

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.
Sun Tzu

Live, Victory, Able

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu

Leadership, Enemy, Wait

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
Sun Tzu

War, Nation, Warfare

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Him, Far

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu

Battle, Before, Makes

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sun Tzu

Good, Best, War

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Nationality: Chinese

Type: Philosopher

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