victory Quotes

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

Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

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.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

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.

He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

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

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

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.