Quotes By Sun Tzu

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.

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

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

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

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

You have to believe in yourself.

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.

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.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

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

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

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.

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

All war is based on deception.