The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
Ernest Hemingway

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn

Sports is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt